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A comment on Belkin Breaks Its Routers Worldwide, Issues Temporary Fix.
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." (source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/um/people/Lamport/pubs/d...)
In this case, the failure of a system most people didn't even know existed (Belkin's heartbeat server) rendered their router unusable.
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"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." (source: http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/um/people/Lamport/pubs/d...)
In this case, the failure of a system most people didn't even know existed (Belkin's heartbeat server) rendered their router unusable.