Re:The Mathematics Community and the NSA [pdf]
by Terr_ on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:57PM
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"Don't worry. Sure, the thief left with all your cash, jewelry, IDs, tax information, and private documents... But 99.998% of the mass contained by your house is still there! Honestly, if it's less than 100kg it's not even worth getting upset about."
Yeah, it's a stupid statistic designed to mislead, since the metric bears no real relationship to the impact or severity of the act.
I wonder how the NSA would react if a spy browsed all their top-secret documents, but made copies of "only 0.002%" of them?
Yeah, it's a stupid statistic designed to mislead, since the metric bears no real relationship to the impact or severity of the act.
I wonder how the NSA would react if a spy browsed all their top-secret documents, but made copies of "only 0.002%" of them?