Anyone can issueinstructions to the basic building blocks of the Internet, the backbone routers, that, if accepted, will seriously disrupt the function of the Internet.
It also highlighted the issue of living wills, since Terri Schiavo had left no written instructions about what action she wanted taken if she became disabled.
As Chris Nagy of TD Ameritrade explains in the new issue of the AAII Journal, a stop order turns into a market order once triggered if more specific instructions are not given.