Neppy - Slashdot User

Comment Re:This is bullshit. (Score 1) 331

by Neppy on Friday September 09, 2011 @01:39PM (#37353722) Attached to: Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans

3. enact a rule that all trades stand.. erroneous trades made by a computer algorithm will never get rolled back

THIS. It is total bullshit that if your computer fucks up massively you get a rollback. Keep your winnings if you win, get your money back if you lose. What a deal for the big firms.

Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch 191

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday September 12, 2010 @05:17AM from the messy-verdict dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000-page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only three days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to a yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly wait to access the full text of the verdict."

Slashdot Top Deals