[155404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: raging bulls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Wed Aug 8 03:03:01 2012
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:02:07 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4E509E7E89E8441E9EDCC0439DDCFA09@owner59e1f1502>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:15:51PM -1000, Michael Painter wrote:
> Eugen Leitl wrote:
>> http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/
>>
>> Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the
>> neutrino and drone rubbish).
>
> 'Rubbish' might be a pretty strong word when you're talking about the players in this space.
If you want to shave off ms, using a source that takes at least
minutes to accrue enough signal for a single bit is definitely
not what you want. And drones across the Atlantic is way too
Rube Goldbergesque to contemplate.
> My favorite from the article:
> "But perhaps not even Einstein fully appreciated the degree to which
> electromagnetic waves bend in the presence of money. "
Maybe they should invest into a dense, a really low LEO sat
constellation, and go by way of LoS laser.
