Re:Collective Memory Discovered in Bacteria
by rdtsc on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:22AM
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> So basically you thwack all the cells with something that pushes their lifecycles towards a similar schedule, and then later-on they tend to all still be on the same cycle?
Funny enough servers will do that as well. They will self synchronize and exhibit a thundering herd effect. They run the same software, power cuts our, or they get DoSed, maybe they restart, retry at the same schedule and so on.
Re:Collective Memory Discovered in Bacteria
by NhanH on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @05:54AM
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Happened just last year! About exactly one year after heart bleed, all kind of websites, big and small, had their ssl certs expired! Apparently a lot of people forget to update the cert schedule
Funny enough servers will do that as well. They will self synchronize and exhibit a thundering herd effect. They run the same software, power cuts our, or they get DoSed, maybe they restart, retry at the same schedule and so on.