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#1 Mr_Miscellany Nov 14, 2011 16:51:43	...according to Kevin Slavin, that's what some businesses are doing to get ahead of the competition on Wall Street. Edit: they're building server farms closer to the physical point where the internet pipes in to New York, in order to reduce the travel time for buy and sell orders.
#2 pluisjen Nov 15, 2011 1:27:57	Someone should tell Wall Street that you can get even faster connections if you use superconductors, we'll have it done in no time. Then, nanobots, fusion technology, and finally world peace. We'll see how far we can get before they stop buying it.
#3 Mr_Miscellany Nov 15, 2011 10:24:43	No kidding, right? Something tells me Skynet won't come from a government computer system; it'll be a financial one, as competing algorithms crash into each other and make algorithm babies.