> If they can be avoided, why do we put up with them? Do we really
> want our colo in downtown San Francisco bad enough to take the risk
> of having a single point of failure? How can we, as engineers, ask
> questions about how many generators, how much fuel, and yet take
> for granted that there is one button on the wall that makes it all
> turn off? Is it simply that having colo in the middle of the city
> is so convenient that it overrides the increased cost and the reduced
> redundancy that are necessitated by that location?
>
You forgot the default "Single Point of Failure" in anything..
HUMANS.
Tuc/TBOH
