It's not playing lawyer, it's agreeing upon some terminology for the purpose of discussion. I was accused of making up terms, I didn't, I used existing terms fr

It's not playing lawyer, it's agreeing upon some terminology for the purpose of discussion. I was accused of making up terms, I didn't, I used existing terms from one particular standard. The very reason I used existing terms from a standard was to avoid the very accusation I got anyway in this hackernews thread, but that's the internet for you. I even mention in the article that the term fault is used differently in the context of hardware faults, different standards have different meanings for the same terms, which is why I also lay them out and don't expect you to know the standard in the article.