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'Selfish Routing' Slows the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the love-thy-neighboring-router dept.

Smaz writes "Science Blog reports that a little love could speed things up on the Net. "Self-interest can deplete a common resource. It seems this also applies to the Internet and other computer networks, which are slowed by those who hurry the most. Fortunately, say computer scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. , there is a limit to how bad the slowdown can get. And after developing tools to measure how much the performance of a particular network suffers, they say, the way to get improved performance on the Internet is the same as the way to maintain air and water quality: altruism helps."

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  1. 3rd post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Sad news, Dolly the sheep dead at 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard the news on talk radio; Dolly the cloned sheep was found dead this morning in her Maine home. There weren't any details. There's no denying that even if you didn't agree with her creators ideology, she was a symbol for all of us. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Sad news, Dolly the sheep dead at 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Except that she was BRITISH. From the people who brought you RADAR. Moron!

    2. Re:Sad news, Dolly the sheep dead at 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What's more, she was SCOTTISH.

    3. Re:Sad news, Dolly the sheep dead at 6 by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, but at times she had some Scot in her...

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  6. Michael is a TROLLING CUNT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Troll Troll Troll your cunt

    Gently down the stream!

    merrily merrily merrily

    Michael is a wet dream!

  7. Without Faith by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am nothing. ...and still you swear upon your heart that you can taste the wind and hear the ground beneath you but you still refuse to see.

  8. Thanks, editor... by davie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks, editor, for unnecessarily turning this discussion into an Objectivists vs. The Usual Crowd debate. Please save the commentary for the OpEd page and let the reader draw his own wrong conclusions.

    Thank you.

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    slashdot broke my sig
  9. hahaha! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Foolish peons! Your bandwidth is mine!

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    "I only speak the truth"
    Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
  10. what would ayn rand say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    she's probably spinning in her grave right now, you socialist pigs.

  11. Re:Thanks Ron Howard by Coolfish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the movie is glamorized hollywood trash. nash in his earlier days was (and he'll deny this but..) gay. he wasn't at all interested in women. later he had to, cuz that's what guys did. the guy was a big closet case, imo still is, and that didn't help his psychophrenia (sp). read the book, come to your own conclusions.

  12. re: self love by rela · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.

    Finally, a signature making a reference I get!

  13. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /. nerds make fun of YOU!

  14. ithaca by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YEA ITHACA!