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Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bee-all-that-you-can-bee dept.

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."

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  1. Um... by varmittang · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know the tubes thing is a joke, right? You can't send live bees down it to figure out how to make it faster.

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    1. Re:Um... by cgenman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Then what is going to the honeypots?

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    2. Re:Um... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bears.

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  2. Behold the power of bees by Sciros · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man I'm not even going to read the summary or TFA no time for that time to hire a ton of bees! Forget outsourcing to China and India and Eastern Europe, teh beehive is where it's at.

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  3. ads are the culprit by toQDuj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I notice that one way of optimising _my_ experience is to switch off the ads, java, javascript and plug-ins. Blazingly fast, the tubes then become.

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  4. No joking... by tgd · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to have a problem with bees around there the FIOS ONT cabling enters my house.

    Freakin' hazard going anywhere near the thing.

    And my internet is freakin' fast. They might be onto something.

  5. Trying to take the sting out of this news, by blueZ3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Internet researchers get hives investigating honey of an optimization tool

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  6. Slashdot Uses Bees to generate faster Dupes by Mike+Morgan · · Score: 5, Funny

    From November

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  7. Web 2.0 by ruiner13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bees make the best web 2.0 buzzwords. They're the buzziest! I blame the hive mentality of the marketing drones for this.

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  8. Did anyone else read that as... by Overzeetop · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Beer Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks"

    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.

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  9. Did you ever notice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is it that the latest scientific research is always first applied to:
    1) war
    2) advertising on the net

  10. Re:OMG! Bees! by red_dragon · · Score: 3, 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?

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  11. Beers? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Beers and bottlenecks? I think I will!

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  12. Re:What's the MTU of your average Bee? by theRiallatar · · Score: 3, Funny

    African or European?