It will keep at home development and production of critical computer control systems, and much else.
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The lander will control its descent by firing individual thrusters in rapid, precise bursts under computer control.
Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind.
Because the program is still in the early stages, much remains to be worked out, such as which computer control systems will be monitored and how the data will be collected.
McMillan was one of nine people killed when her train, under automatic computer control, apparently failed to register a signal and avoid a collision with a train that had stopped near a curve between two stations.
This process gives a computer user control over which DNS server to use.
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At the top, the computer makers control everything, managing customer relationships and farming out orders to their software subsidiaries in the second layer.
The computer can control the throttle and measure the engine speed.
The computer-control system can then apply the brake on the wheel concerned, and even adjust the amount of engine torque sent to that wheel, so that skidding is prevented.
Nor did a similar intelligent computer sieze control of the American nuclear weapons in 1997 and virtually wipe out humanity only to be later defeated by a rag-tag group of rebels.
By registering the amount of friction between the tyre and the road, the system warns the car's computer-control equipment if the car is in danger of aquaplaning on a large puddle or skidding on ice.
The government also charged that Microsoft bullied computer makers into ceding control of the computer's desktop.
It requires a bit of new plumbing and a few extra lines of code for the engine's control computer.
In 2010, Microsoft introduced the Kinect, allowing computer gamers to control video games by moving their bodies.
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The difference between the Montrose rig-simulator and (say) a flight simulator is that it is not completely under the computer's control.
From what researchers have exposed so far, Stuxnet was designed to control computer systems produced by the German engineering giant Siemens.
"We had to be able to use computer software to control the motor, to programme it to move the wings at particular intervals, " she said.
Would you allow a computer program to control your dishwasher remotely?
Hacking back across third party systems is more self help than self defense (rarely is the command and control computer linked directly to the system being attacked).
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U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control the electric grid and other U.S. infrastructure.
The five-metre-long missiles are supersonic within moments of leaving the launcher, having taken their initial course from the control computer, and accelerate to five times the speed of sound.
Computer systems that control the water supply and wastewater systems "have been the targets of probing by al Qaeda terrorists, " says Rep. Putnam, who cites U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
When the control computer has decided the best time to launch, it tells a launcher to fire a missile or missiles - typically two might be fired at a target in rapid succession because one alone does not guarantee a hit.
Parents can access Zoodles.com from any computer to track and control their child's activities on the FunTab Pro.
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Another keyboard replacement involves various brain scanning technologies, such as when wheelchair-bound people can control a computer with an eyeball flick.
In contrast, Windows Live Mesh and SplashTop HD ran like a dream and made it easy to access and control the computer from a Windows laptop, Macbook Pro, HTC Flyer and various Android smartphones.
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Unlike other aircraft where the pilot's controls are manually attached to the flaps and rudders, Airbus 330 airliners are equipped with a "fly by wire" system that sends electronic signals from an onboard computer to move key control surfaces.
Emotiv sells a variety of software including a package of popular games like "Call of Duty" and "World of Warcraft" that are optimized for the company's headset, as well as a program designed to let users control a computer with thoughts instead of a mouse or keyboard.
Upstairs, in the control room, computer screens display colored sine waves that represent movements from various stations on the blade.
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