Quote stuffing v. Rapidly placing and canceling orders for stock shares in order to game the market. By sending upto 5,000 bogus orders a second, high-frequency traders can clog data feeds, gaining a momentary advantage. Data clipper n. A spaceship designed to ferry scientific data around the solar system. Powered by solar sails, fleets of data clippers will rendezvous with exploration satellites, pick up multi-terabyte maps of distant planets, and ferry them to Earth.
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