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Message Storm Knocks NYSE Offline
ninjee writes "The New York Stock Exchange is re-examining its network after it was forced to close four minutes early at 3:56pm on Wednesday (1 June) because of a communications glitch. Trading opened on time (09:30 EDT) the following morning but the outage irked traders and raised questions about the reliability of a network described as 'ultra reliable' following improvements made in the wake the September 11 terrorist attacks. The outage stemmed from a fault in a system designed to distribute market data and operate computer trading systems. NYSE Chief Executive John Thain said that both the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports. He added that the exchange would carry out remedial work designed to prevent any repetition of the problem."
I never saw the slashdot editors claim they were 'late breaking' or 'first on the scene'. Where in hell did you people ever get that illusion?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
I never thought the day would come when someone posts a joke and the respone, on /. of all places, references copyright restrictions. How ironic, if not a sad sign of how times have changed.
I don't see why it's ironic. As uninformed as some slashdot posts are, there are also a lot of users who recognise that copyright makes a lot of sense, and is actually useful. It's the enforcement of copyright that allows the GPL and the GFDL to work. What many people here do complain about is the never-ending extentions of copyright, arguably against the general public interest, and allegedly because corporations have bought off politicians.
This may be a joke, but it was copied verbatim without providing the copyright notice, which is required by the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It's a copyright violation, and to ignore it as irrelevant would be hypocritical and ironic in itself. (Not to mention illegal.)