They soon abandoned that idea: "It turns out they're tens of orders of magnitude too difficult to see," Mulhearn says.
He imprisoned tens of thousands, ordered the killings of political enemies, real and imagined, including two of his sons-in-law, and used poison gas to wipe out whole villages in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
"We will argue that thousands of orders from the distributors as well as tens of thousands of orders from these down-stream customers were suspicious because of the pattern of distribution to Florida," prosecutors wrote.
"We work with a variety of carriers to deliver the many millions of orders that we dispatch on a weekly basis.
It took the SEC about four months to unwind the billions of orders that took place that day and issue a report of what happened.
Moving production to California will help relieve the strain at Boeing, which has been struggling to fill hundreds of orders for the best-selling 737.
The database included information on thousands of orders issued by judges around the country to law enforcement agents seeking to monitor suspects' e-mails.
"When there are tens of thousands of orders going on simultaneously, you are getting beyond what a human can do," he told the audience at MIT Technology Review's first EmTech Next conference today.
Thousands of orders poured in for items out of stock.
There have been tens of thousands of orders, says Gioel Molinari, Butterfly Network's president.
