The hits keep on coming. You just know one of these days, someone's going to find a way to root and loot all these high-speed trading programs, or else write a Stuxnet-type virus to crash them for a laugh.
The people running them barely understand them as it is. It'll be the IT guy who learns he didn't get a bonus that some idiot trader did and/or is getting the ax. Carl --- On Fri, 12/24/10, David Mandl <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Mandl <[email protected]> > Subject: <nettime> High-tech trading, 2011 edition > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 6:24 AM > If buying WebVan stock at $800/share > in 1999 wasn't dumb enough for you, read on: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
