On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patr...@ianai.net> > >> On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, JC Dill wrote: >>> On 23/08/11 3:13 PM, William Herrin wrote: >>>> A. Our structures aren't built to seismic zone standards. Our >>>> construction workers aren't familiar with*how* to build to seismic >>>> zone standards. We don't secure equipment inside our buildings to >>>> seismic zone standards. >>> >>> They should be. >>> They should be. >>> You should. >>> >>> Earthquakes can happen anywhere. There's no excuse to fail to >>> build/secure to earthquake standards. >> >> Tornados can happen anywhere, there's no excuse to fail to >> build/secure for tornados. >> >> [Etc.] >> >> Things that cost money are not done unless the probability of the >> danger is higher than vanishingly small. This temblor - at 5.8 with no >> injuries or fatalities - was the largest earthquake on the entire east >> coast in 67 years, and the largest in VA in well over a century. Think >> of the _trillions_ of dollars which could have been put into >> healthcare, public safety, hell, better networking equipment :) we >> could have used instead of making all buildings on the east coast >> earthquake safe. > > False economy. That argument was valid *before* the Internet became a > Generally Mission Critical Utility. It is now. And, alas, commerce being > what it is, it's not deployed to be *nearly* as failover redundant as it > was designed to be,[1]
The original quote was not limited buildings which house Internet infrastructure. As for whether it is true for "Internet", I would argue the point, but ain't got the time. -- TTFN, patrick
