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Australian Company Promises Switching Hardware With Sub-130ns Latency
snowdon writes "The race for low-latency in finance and HPC has taken a major turn. A bunch of engineers from Australia have 'thrown away the air conditioning' in a traditional switch, to get a 10G fibre-to-fibre latency of less than 130ns! Way faster than more traditional offerings. This lady (video) would tell you that it's equivalent to just 26m of optical fibre. Does that mean we just lose money faster?"
Now they can suck our economy dry with even more speed and efficiency!
I'm sure they'll have some nice propaganda to tell us all about how this benefits the common man.
They already do; it's called the 2012 Presidential Election. Donations to Barack Obama in 2008 - $1,013,091 2012 (reported thus far) - $80,224 Donations to Mitt Romney (2012, reported thus far) - $528,180 I believe this is what they in the finance 'industry' refer to as "hedging."
It sure is easier when there's only two parties with a chance of winning. I mean if there were 4-5 or more parties that can win federal elections, why, they'd have to spend a lot more money! Clearly being one party away from total dictatorship and winding up with half-dictatorship is producing value. For America! *cue flag, fireworks, apple pie, maybe an image of a soldier who fights for "your freedoms" by blowing away some brown people who never were a threat to us...*