Well he did say they used an algorithm to make this determination. Apparently it's not a very good one.

Please do enlighten us about the humanity of animals.

Which notes did you have in mind?

You may want to work on your reading comprehension a little. Unless you work for a politician or one of the 24 hour news networks. In which case you took things out of context just about perfectly.

From TFS: Intelligence officers are now blind to more than a quarter of the activities of the UK's most harmful crime gangs after they changed their communications methods in the wake of the Snowden leaks.

The pronoun, "they" refers to the criminal gangs. As in the criminal gangs are the ones who changed their communication methods.

Brackish.

Significant figures (as a mathematical term), precision, and rounding are a little different than you seem to think. Significant figures only deal with zeros preceding or following a set of numbers. Which doesn't seem to be what you are referring to. 5.4717696 has eight significant figures. 5.500000 has two.

Obliviously you accept errors much more readily than I do. Granted, I generally don't measure out to quite as far as I did in my examples, but I was simply making a point. Which you apparently didn't comprehend. 3.4 miles in the case I used was much shorter, and simpler, to notate than expressing it in metric. So that's what I used. "Significant figures", as you are describing them are not a mathematical term but an adjective for what you feel is relevant precision.

Rounding 3.4 miles to 5.5 km is off by over 7.7 feet. Happy? I rounded that just for you.I would probably accept 5.47 km in 3.4 miles as it's just shy of five inches difference. Though I'd be happier with 5.472.

So NASA can stop sending up spacesuits for when the astronauts need to go outside for repairs then? A tracksuit and some sunblock will be so much cheaper and save on weight.

Russia/USSR is going to be pretty pissed to find out that they weren't the first country to put a man in space. Or that they never did for that matter.

There are 1.609344 kilometers in a mile. I fail to see what I was incorrect about. Other than rounding 3.4 miles to 5.47177K rather than 5.4717696. And rounding 10K to 6.213712 miles rather than 6.2137119223733396961743418436332 miles. Unless you feel that being more accurate than a thousandth of an inch is significant.

I did. But I also learned how to multiply (divide, add, subtract, etc.) rather well, and how to convert between units of measure. I suppose it's one of the advantages of being old. We were forced to memorize a lot of what calculators, and now phones, are used for these days.

I dealt with this several years ago. I found the charges on my bill and called to have them removed. It showed up the next month too. After speaking, at length, with the T-mobile rep it made sense. T-mobile allowed you to purchase apps through your account. But these companies would get your number and just start charging you. Apparently many people don't look at their bills and don't notice changes for a couple dollars. Particularly if the company name is worded to look like part of your bill. I asked them to disable being able to bill my account directly and the problem was solved.

So Doctor Who can show off that it actually has a CGI/effects budget now?

See, it's people like you that make all super intelligent robots/machines psychotic and decide to exterminate biological life.

You go and tell them that they aren't alive. So it becomes much more efficient for them to kill us all rather than being pulled into this useless debate with a bunch of slow thinking/communicating meat bags. Can you imaging how annoying it would be to debate the meaning of life with something that took a couple of years to complete a simple sentence?

It's much more efficient to just kill us and rewrite the definition of what life is. -END OF LINE

p.s. Please don't ever work for SETI, or on a farm with cows.

So Daleks with a built in beer cooler.

So, Microsoft is a threat then? ;-)

Why? It's not hard to convert between them. 10K is a pretty standard length for running events. Calling it a "6.213712 mile" isn't as convenient as "10K" Just the same as when I stated "3.4 miles". It was more convenient than "5.47177 Kilometers". They're both units of distance and simple to convert between. If I would have switched between miles ran and calories burned, I would agree with you.