{"id":3534,"date":"2015-01-25T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T11:37:27","slug":"gilbs-laws-of-unreliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3534","title":{"rendered":"Gilb&#8217;s Laws of Unreliability"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Computers are unreliable.  Humans are worse.<\/li>\n<li>Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.<\/li>\n<li>The only difference between the fool and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front.<\/li>\n<li>Undetectable errors are infinite in variety. Detectable errors do not exist, unless deadline is less than three hours away.<\/li>\n<li>Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some real work done.<\/li>\n<li>At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.<\/li>\n<li>A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.<\/li>\n<li>Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.<\/li>\n<li>The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle.<\/li>\n<li>All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise &#8212; which is impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers are unreliable. Humans are worse. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. The only difference between the fool and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety. Detectable errors do not exist, unless deadline is less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,52],"tags":[414],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-rules","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}