The answer may depend on whether there's a widespread power outage that affects multiple machines, a software bug that affects only one of the machines, or whether the person monitoring those machines assuming there is one can recognize there is a problem brewing.
And speaking of the house: while I am too fatigued to do more than recline on a blue couch, he takes care of the busted water pipes, the electrical outages, the broken washing machine and all the other home ills.
The company points out that it tracked a similar outage on Microsoft Azure virtual machines and object storage on February 19th that lasted over 5 hours, but didn't get nearly the attention yesterday's incident did.
The 320 ballots were lost when a power outage on Tuesday turned the machine off, causing it to reset.
He also said a "power outage is a way of damaging centrifuge machines".
Prior to this attack, the largest outage for the root registry was 7 machines in July of 1997, due to a technical problem".
The voting machines are even fitted with a car battery as back-up in the case of an electrical outage.
Paul J. Fleuranges, the chief spokesman for New York City Transit, the arm of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that runs the subways and buses, declined to speculate on the cause of the breakdown, but said "it was a systemwide outage affecting all or close to every" of the 2,245 machines.
It becomes a general expectation that these machines can operate in an extended lifespan with a low percentage of outage time.
Like Ilufoye, he is frustrated by structural limitations: he could handle a capacity of one ton a day, but he can't afford a generator to keep his machines running during the frequent outages.
