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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Thu Sep 2 18:46:35 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 22:19:01 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199909022019.WAA25610@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 12:26 PM 9/2/99 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>Bad things happen to good systems because even good systems can fail,
>they're not perfect either.
But good systems are designed to handle N simultaneous
faults. The problem is, N+1 happens.
>I speak from experience, I'm blind in one eye, both ankles and knees are bad,
>slightly crippled right hand, had just about every joint in my body
>dislocated at one point or another, several muscles damaged from severe
>tears and resultant scar tissue, luckily no broken bones. And I still do
>stuff that most folks think is just plain crazy.
That's what we call "operator error" and it is responsible
for a great deal of avoidable damage. Not surprising,
though.
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