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.