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The New York Stock Exchange unexpectedly shut down trading in all of its listed stocks Wednesday morning.
The exchange said on Twitter: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach."
A trader on the floor of the exchange in lower Manhattan, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that after the suspension began, traders were told that the problem was related to updated software that was rolled out before markets opened Wednesday.
Trading was resumed around 3:00 PM after having been down since 11:30 AM.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:26PM
But alas, it's never the fault of the infallible Masters of the Universe.
Remind me again, who is paying whom?
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday July 10 2015, @01:28AM
That's a good question.
Who's making the robots and who's profiting from the robots?
I'm no Luddite and wouldn't call for a Butlerian jihad (well, obvious exception for Skynet and the AIs of Simmons' Hyperion [and even those were quite divided on the issue of what to do with humanity]), but it's getting close to time for those of us who maintain and write for these computer systems under sometimes simply bizarre kinds of pressure and utter misconceptions (i.e. the internet being sufficiently advanced technology by way of its indistinguishably to magic) to go Galt as it were… ironically, this is how unions and professional associations are formed, by going Galt when shit becomes unbearable.
Here's what the MotU are doing: they have a strong propaganda arm selling the narrative that we're¹ a bunch of misogynist racists getting in the way of “women²” and minorities entering the field and filling some kind of shortage of tech workers while laying off tens of thousands of tech workers and failing to scale our pay in proportion to the increased business capabilities we provide. There is a time when men and Amazons need to put their collective foot down and say, “Party's over. Pay me what I'm worth or who's going to make your next job-eliminating toy? How will we support our loved ones who can no longer work because of what we've given you when you're paying me as though I support only myself?”
Now to digress.
¹ Always remember that this support the SJWs pretend to have for trans women is a pure smoke screen. It's even more laughable when they accuse a cisgendered woman of having a penis. The 2nd and 3rd wave feminist movements have never supported trans women, even when there were still Amazon operatives in their numbers (1st and 2nd wave feminism) before they left because the mission had been accomplished. (There are no operatives I'm aware of, not that I I'm certain I could disclose it if I did know, in the 3rd wave—judging by the 3rd wave's embrace of the idea of women as weak victims—the exact same lies men used to tell that led to the formation of the Amazon Nation in antiquity—, going to absurd lengths such as “microaggressions” [the very idea infuriates me], one can be assured there are no more Amazons involved in those circles.)
² Full disclosure: It is true I do look down on non-Amazon women, but out of pity. However, I also believe that being formally initiated into an Amazon tribe is not a requirement of being a true Amazon, and I've met several true Amazon sisters though they be few and far between.