what i got out of this ramble is that you're prone to react violently when someone disagrees with you. granted, it was a bit long winded, so i stopped about half way through.

somebody, quick! get this kid an ar15 with a high capacity clip! what could possibly go wrong?

it's not at all close to wall street. it is, however, right near the nasdaq exchange.

of course, if you wanted to colo with nasdaq, you'd have your servers next to theirs in carteret, nj - not "on wall st" or in times square.

Seems like a bad example. Data Execution Prevention and Address space layout randomization are actually very important depending on your field...

Maybe the guy who "totally lied" knew what he was talking about and you didn't?

for residential, that's true. for commercial and/or municipal, they stick to diesel.

in the case that con-ed shuts off nat gas flow due to fires (which is happening all over the place right now...), do you want your generator to choke out?

that leaves lp. diesel packs about a 50% higher energy density than lp. which would you prefer to use? further, diesel is much more commoditized than lp, and is more readily available during a crisis.

the area he lived in didn't have municipal garbage collection. instead of bringing his garbage to the dump, he chose to burn it in his backyard. that's how both fires started.

the fire department did actually show up - to prevent the fire from spreading to his neighbor's yard.

pics please! otherwise, it's hard to see that picture...

except... God Created Baseball.

right.... you think this because...?

seems they've been following the US economy, and what they meant to say was;

debt to america!
debt to america!
debt to america!

you mean like the SEC fee on all sales that's already in place?

read up a bit on "vwap". is that high frequency in you ever-so-informed opinion? the portfolio in question was intended as a 5-day vwap.

the problem was that the volume was multiplied by 1000 per transaction. you mean to buy 100 shares at market? here's your 100,000 shares at market! the unusual volume caused the individual stocks within the portfolio to spike up/down. but hft it was not.

though knight does hft, that wasn't the problem here. it was a simple 4.5 billion dollar balanced portfolio that the client wanted to trade as a 5-day-vwap. "buy these stock over 5 days, sell these other stocks over the same 5 days". a 5 day vwap is in NO way "high frequency trading". it's almost the opposite of hft. if i wanted to buy 200 shares at market every 3 minutes for 5 days, would you consider that hft? (i know that's actually twap, but good luck explaining vwap to this genius). the purpose is to minimize market impact.

flipping stock was not what was intended, and not what happened.

the frequency was not high - the volume per transaction was incorrectly multiplied by 1000. the bug was that the "200" in the example above was converted into "200,000". 200,000 shares at market WILL have an immediate impact on most stocks.

bond price doesn't matter if you hold to maturity. if you're happy with the yield and duration at time of purchase, then there's no reason to sell before maturity. if you're not happy with the yield and duration, don't buy it.

why, same way they know now! the sales rep would tell them that at their pharma-sponsored, all-paid, 2-week "meeting" (read "golf outing") at a high-end resort.