Yes, with something this complex, you do become nervous about the chance of a single point of failure.
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Since an access point can share its connection with several other routers located near it, it doesn't have a single point of failure.
But as has become clear, WikiLeaks was not like the Internet it lives on: It also had a single, internal point of failure.
There is no way to fill in the space between the spines so that they are proof against catastrophe, or easily fixable at any point of failure.
At that point, it is vital that that participant be allowed to fail, to demonstrate to all other market participants where the point of failure in the pricing structure is.
While it is true that virtualization may be creating a situation where there is now a single point of failure, the cost benefits of virtualizing servers are well documented.
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But has journalism reached such a point of utter failure that we are ready to take these risks and hit the panic button?
The number of reasons why are staggering, namely: a failure to focus, no competitive point of difference, and weak brand images and identities, to name just a few.
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But, Nul said, the cost of this intervention is lower than the cost of patients being hospitalized, a significant point because much of the cost associated with congestive heart failure stems from patients needing to be hospitalized after they suffer setbacks.
Coulthard's McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who started from the back of the grid following an engine failure in qualifying, scored his first point of the season.
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England centre Jamie Noon scored the third of their tries, but their failure to earn a bonus point leaves them two points adrift of pool leaders Brive ahead of their pivotal clash at Kingston Park in January.
This dinosaur took my raid a considerable amount of time to bring down, but at no point did I get the sense there was any chance of failure.
Given the lifelessness of the enterprise, there's little point in belaboring its failure to convey the novel's themes, let alone the emotional and social resonance of what has come to be considered a masterpiece of world literature.
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The failure of Annan's six-point peace plan has emboldened opposition groups.
In the worst case, this continues to the point that the consequences of success can be worse than the failure you tried to avoid: What is the value to achieve something that is inconsequential, and nobody cares about?
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You can still instantly relocate a starting point by clicking in the wave (although I encountered buggy instances of failure).
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Jonathon Feit was bullied, and he thinks that trial by fire gave him the kind of resolve an entrepreneur needs to succeed when all signs point to failure.
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" He says he likes to tell youths and college students: "What would your life be like if you could eliminate the fear of failure, and where would you be at this point in life?
But he cannot point to any reason the old promise might now become a reality after five years of failure.
SpaceX was quick to make the point that the ability to carry on despite an engine failure demonstrates a big advantage of multi-engined rockets like the Falcon (Space Shuttles and Saturn V moon rockets could both do something similar).
Jeffrey Krusinski, who headed the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, provided a rallying point for lawmakers, who held it up Tuesday as an example of the Pentagon's failure to make progress despite the increased effort.
The failure of the global-warming talks in The Hague is a case in point.
The point is that for more than 25 years, from the 1970s, the supposed great economic failure of the UK was in its propensity for rapid price rises.
You could argue, and in fact this point was made to me earlier in the week by Alastair Mitchell of Huddle, that the success or failure of the social business meme revolves around one central question: will enough CIOs have the guts, or the capability, to extricate themselves from big vendor relationships.
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The failure of Brazil's state-owned airline, Varig, was a turning-point.
Those efforts have proven a failure to this point, and a market that has been fairly sanguine about the potential negative implications of the fiscal cliff to this point had a violent reaction Friday morning, though the move was tempered somewhat after Boehner said he is still open to working with the White House on some form of compromise.
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Rather, it's a failure of leadership -- from Washington to Detroit -- that led our auto companies to this point.
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