Well now you're just being hyperbolic. As you say, this is an engineering problem so solutions are far from their ideals states in either direction. However, 1%

Well now you're just being hyperbolic. As you say, this is an engineering problem so solutions are far from their ideals states in either direction. However, 1% increase in ram failure rates ruining the world? That doesn't sound right. Errors are encountered in RAM all the time and guess what, they're corrected often by the hardware before even bothering the system. I'm sure we could deal with a 1% increase...