Using software you install on your PC, you can take complete control over all the phones in the house and turn your internal phone network into a system like a private branch exchange (PBX) not unlike what you might find at the office.

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Last year, a water plant in Texas disconnected its control system from the Internet after a hacker posted pictures of the facility's internal controls.

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Heart-rate variability, says Dr Stein, is a good index of the degree of control an individual has over his autonomic nervous system (which controls many of the internal organs).

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So from mid June to last Wednesday, UBS's risk-control systems did not detect that these big bets were being placed, because its internal accounting system was showing that bets in the opposite direction had also been placed.

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