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What if used bees instead of birds?



It would make it either much easier or much harder to implement a honeypot.

Also, combining the two into a "birds and bees" protocol might be idea for some kinds of traffic.


Considering I learnt this week bees have been shown to understand numerical symbols to the point of accociating them with quantity, using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking. I mean, we all know how badly that turned out with PDFs, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103292


> using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking

Doom on bees. NetBSD on bees. Linux on bees. TensorFlow on bees. Software as a hive. Bees as a service.

All of that would be... the bee's knees.


Bees as a service has existed for quite a long time and is a pretty interesting business:

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-05-farmer-hiveinside-world-rent...


PDFs are not Turing complete (PostScript is).


I knew about postcript (who doesn't lock up office printers by rendering mandlebrot sents?) but was absolutely convinced PDFs were as well. They're not and it seems they quite deliberately weren't as well. [1] - thanks for setting me straight :)

[1] https://www.cs.odu.edu/~zeil/cs390/latest/Public/turing-comp...


Actually, you can have Javascript in PDF nowadays, so...


How about both? Birds and the bees.




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