Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks 128
prostoalex writes "Georgia Tech and University of Oxford scientists claim bees can help up develop a better Internet traffic algorithms. By observing bees, the researchers noticed that bees pass back information on route quality. 'On a basic level, the honeybee's dilemma is a tale of two flower patches. If one patch is yielding better nectar than the other, how can the hive use its workforce most efficiently to retrieve the best supply at the moment? The solution, which earned Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch a Nobel Prize, is a communication system called the waggle dance.' Any practical applications of that? Well, apparently ad servers, serving banners across a variety of servers, can report back on the time it took to generate the page."
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
Behold the power of bees (Score:4, Funny)
ads are the culprit (Score:5, Funny)
No joking... (Score:4, Funny)
Freakin' hazard going anywhere near the thing.
And my internet is freakin' fast. They might be onto something.
Trying to take the sting out of this news, (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot Uses Bees to generate faster Dupes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um... (Score:5, Funny)
True breakthrough (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Um... (Score:5, Funny)
Web 2.0 (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no, what's next? (Score:3, Funny)
Did anyone else read that as... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure what the alcohol has to do with network optimization, but I'll just say right now that I'm for it.
This works great... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did anyone else read that as... (Score:2, Funny)
And, sure, beer can optimize networks. Drink enough and watch how fast everything whizzes by you!
Re:No joking... (Score:1, Funny)
bees at GT, eh? (Score:2, Funny)
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Did you ever notice (Score:3, Funny)
1) war
2) advertising on the net
Re:OMG! Bees! (Score:4, Funny)
Now we'll have routers do the wiggly bee dance
If a big Cisco or Juniper is running WDRP (Wiggly Dance Routing Protocol), does each line card do a different dance from the other cards in the chassis? What would such a router be called then, a hoedown? If the line cards started dancing "Thriller", will the router turn white and start chatting to young boys on IM?
Re:What's the deal with honey bees? (Score:3, Funny)
Beers? (Score:3, Funny)
There are better carriers than bees... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What's the MTU of your average Bee? (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't this have been obvious... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This works great... (Score:2, Funny)