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A scientist and a shrew: A California Academy of Sciences researcher trekked through the rainforests of Tanzania in search of the Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, the newest mammal to join the elephant shrew group. They may not look like elephants, but they do have evolutionary ties to the pachyderm going back 100 million years in Africa. Scientists...; Tags: Scientist, News.com, elephant, shrew, kara tsuboi, california academy of sciences, san francisco, africa, species; Videos 2008-02-01

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Robotic rats will get a sense of touch: An international team composed of robot designers and brain researchers is looking at nature to develop a new generation of robots with active touch sensing abilities. The BIOTACT ('Biomimetic technology for vibrissal active touch') project is developing whiskered robot rats which might help in rescue or search missions under conditions...; Tags: Researcher, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-02-18
Photos: Family of elephant shrews adds another: It doesn't resemble an elephant, nor is it a true shrew. But the gray-faced sengi is the first giant elephant shrew to be discovered in 126 years. by CNET News.com; Tags: Elephant, Photograph, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-02-01
TCP Flow Analysis for Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks: The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding type of DDoS attacks. This paper explores the energy distributions of Internet traffic flows in frequency...; Tags: TCP, Distributed Denial Of Service, Analysis, Attack, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Security; White papers 2007-03-08
Vanguard: A New Detection Scheme for a Class of TCP-Targeted Denial-of-Service Attacks: A few low-rates, TCP-targeted Denial-of-Service DoS attacks have been recently proposed, including the Shrew attack, Reduction of Quality RoQ attack, and Pulsing DoS PDoS attack. All of them use periodic attack pulses to throttle TCP flows. These attacks could potentially become major threats to the Internet's stability and therefore they...; Tags: Attack, Security; White papers 2006-08-16

Telco cowardice and DRM: At a panel on DRM at the recent 3GSM conference in Barcelona, David Birch of Consult Hyperion, a U.K.-based independent IT consultancy, cut loose in rather politically incorrect a fashion against a telecommunication industry that he feels should stand strong against the DRM demands of content companies. From the article:...; Tags: David Birch, telecommunications company, telecommunications, digital-rights management; Blog posts 2006-02-22
Ferreting out copyright scofflaws: Ferreting out copyright scofflawsMingorance of course!Call it Mingorance. BTW a Ferret is a member of the weasel family of animals.Doesn't "Weasel Mingorance of the BSA" sound better?New Characters Added To LineupCopyrighza Croc the crocodileRIAlly Shady ShrewDastardly DecrypterSly Shrinker"Rip It" RaccoonTogether they show kids that you can decrypt and shrink DVD...; Tags: Weasel Mingorance, mascot, RIAA, music; Discussion threads 2004-08-10