Sentences with phrase «other control systems»

Now that Stuxnet has shown it is possible for a targeted piece of software to take command of an industrial control system, and now that the malware has been released on the Internet for other hackers to study, the bar has been lowered for destructive attacks on other control systems — whether at critical infrastructure or an industrial factory.

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Several other Silicon Valley start - ups, such as Planet Labs and Masten Space Systems, have been making headlines recently as they enter the space exploration market, an endeavor long associated with, and controlled by, the government.
Air traffic control, electrical grid, water systems, utilities, and other mission - critical systems are all controlled by computers.
By the way, if you're driving a late - model car, you're already piloting a computer on wheels that electronically controls braking, steering and other major systems.
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.
(Among other things, it's used for real - time control systems in nuclear power plants.)
Leidos Inc. is a Virginia - based technology company that, among other things, provides command - and - control software and planning systems for the military and intelligence community.
It was always a possibility that the system would eventually be Balkanised, ie divided into a number of geographical or jurisdiction - determined subnets as societies such as China, Russia, Iran and other Islamic states decided that they needed to control how their citizens communicated.
The whole structure should be redefined along two regimes, one unitary and relatively regulated, and the other individualistic and representing a variety of tax rates and welfare and regulatory systems, and liberated from Brussels» manic control - freakishness, that requires regulation of banana displays in grocery stores and the size of condoms.
The researchers, some of whom are other former NSA employees, then use a controlled testing environment to try and infiltrate customers» systems and pinpoint vulnerabilities.
On Friday, Cramer turned to Honeywell, the massive industrial conglomerate manufacturing aircraft engines, climate control systems, security equipment and other specialty products.
The Russian supplied air defense systems in use in Syria that include the S - 400 missile and its 92N6E «Gravestone» fire control radar along with other systems are highly mobile and highly adaptive.
Other useful property policies for food service businesses are: • Spoilage covers the value of property spoiled as a result of a breakdown of your temperature control system due to conditions beyond your control.
Other unfavourable factors include weakening market demand amid the economic downturn, administrative inefficiency, non-transparent legal systems, foreign exchange controls, high tax rates and high labour costs, the report said.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
In other hand, we have implemented useful privacy settings and control systems that can be customized by the users, as they wish.
A: I think I was like 99.9 percent of other Americans, and I was absolutely naïve about how controlled our food system is by the [food] packer and producer cartels.
Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system
With equity management platforms like Shareworks there is now a system of record that the company controls and can give access to legal counsel, investors and other stakeholders as desired.»
Most accounting software products allow you to invite other users to the system and control the data they can see and the tasks they can access.
That's because Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are decentralized systems with no one in charge, while the Russian and Venezuelan plans would give the leaders of both countries a measure of control over the new currencies.
Electronic firearm tracking technology is defined as «a platform, system or device or a group of systems or devices that uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain technology or any other similar form of technology or electronic database for the purpose of storing information in a decentralized or centralized way, that is not owned or controlled by any single person or entity and that is used to locate or control the use of a firearm.»
It's important to note that despite flaws in the system, Facebook offers its users much, much more control of site governance that any other major website.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.
Goldfein asked, noting that in past command - and - control programs, defense contractors have put forth low - cost hardware linked to stovepiped, proprietary software that can not share information with other systems.
The attack pumps more data into a buffer than it's designed to hold; the overflow corrupts memory nearby, letting hackers introduce malicious code there that can take control of servers and other systems.
The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).
We have seen similar innovation and disruption in other fields but in banking it has been difficult as large financial institutions have controlled the system for a long time without giving up control.
While Syria is equipped with a relatively sophisticated air defense system, a lack of training, command and control and other human factors are probably responsible for the failure of the system during the attack.
While its very large e-commerce has been a strong driver of the rise of alternative payment providers in the country, Citi points at a number of other factors that have facilitated the rise of those third - party payment companies, among which an under - developed banking system viewed by the public as quite unreliable (unsurprising given how tightly controlled banking is in China, which has stifled customer - oriented innovation), and «relaxed regulation.»
Those traditional ledgers are under the complete control of each company, stored on one computer system, in one data center, with perhaps a couple of backups in other locations.
The entire concept of God is distasteful and I see no reason to believe religion is anything other than a man made control system.
An empire, he contends, is a nation ambitious to exercise control over the political and economic systems of other nations — and the international order itself — to the end of preserving, promoting and advancing its own interests.
When I use it, I use it to refer to a system which is presumably based on some of the kinds of things mentioned in your dictionary definition, but which in reality has become a system used to control others and profit from them.
The reality of the word «religion» is not automatically synonymous with a system that controls and profits from others.
Three: the concessions which the G7 is considering now in order to maintain its overall control over the global financial system threatened by the withdrawing of eastern, southern and south east Asian countries from financial globalisation and the possibilities for other countries such as Russia, some countries of Latin America, Africa and western Asia to move in that direction.
In his contribution, «The All - Determining God and the Peril of Determinism,» David Polk explores the meaning of God as the «all - determining power» in Pannenberg's system.2 The question of power is a difficult one, as Polk shows: if Pannenberg overemphasizes God's control, he falls into the morasses of determinism alluded to in Polk's title; conversely, «the freedom of the other» must be «genuinely authenticated» (TWP 159).
If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»
Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..
The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).
It also appears that humanity is not able to control our thought processes to any great degree, and erratic thinking can have a great many different causes and effects... and the various biochemical actions / reactions of our central nervous systems are not exactly «set in stone», so when you have a situation like this one, it is only good sense to call for rationality in what we do and in what others do.
Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.
Eagle also offers a variety of industry - standard data communications options, including OPC UA and Ethernet / IP to enable easy integration of Eagle FA systems with factory floor controls and other automation and data systems.
While certifiers require organic farmers to identify management practices that address this management requirement as part of the Organic System Plan, producers who have completed a HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) assessment or other risk assessment plan may also implement heavy metals testing as a method of cControl Points) assessment or other risk assessment plan may also implement heavy metals testing as a method of controlcontrol.
Sealing System also designs and manufactures its own range of equipment, including robots, palletisers, conveyors, and feeding, transport and control systems, all of which can be integrated with other packing line equipment to provide complete line solutions for customers.
Two X-ray systems will be demonstrated, both of which use Ishida's advanced GA technology to detect a variety of contaminants down to 0.3 mm in size and which can also be used for other quality control operations such as product grading by length, presence of clips, product deformation or missing or damaged pieces.
Other equipment being demonstrated on this line will be an Ishida seal tester, DACS - G checkweigher and IX - GA X-ray system for effective quality control, and Ishida's advanced Strip Pack Applicator, which provides a retail ready product display solution.
With stringent quality control a vital requirement for fresh food operations, Ishida's advanced X-ray systems provide greater versatility than traditional metal detectors with their ability to identify a wide range of foreign bodies in bulk or packed products, including stones, glass, metals and dense plastics, as well as being able to carry out a number of other quality checks, such as deformed products or packaging.
Total Flow Control ™, our patented airflow system, allows you to set the location and duration of the breakpoint airflow, which eliminates cold spots in the oven, resulting in more consistent product cooking and coloring, and up to a 6 % increase in product yields over other manufacturer's ovens.
The industry claims that this farming system requires less skills and knowledge than the conventional farming system because farmers do not have to select among a range of herbicide active ingredients, carefully time their herbicide application and apply other non-chemical control practices such as plowing, deep tillage or manual weeding.
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