The acquisition gives control over the network to Viacom (nyse: VIA.B - news - people ), which delivered a first-quarter profit off the strength of its other cable networks, including MTV .
It is a dark, dystopian vision, but one that speaks directly to the realities that surround us: chronic dependency, demand without limits, violent acquisition and addictive control.
By contrast, conventional monitoring technologies like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measure every two to four seconds without precise time synchronization.
It takes control of the facility's SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition system) and through it, is able to destroy the facility.
Within the next seven days, Rockwell Automation will release a patch for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) vulnerability first made public last Friday.
Now they have revealed dozens of vulnerabilities in the supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) software that much national infrastructure and manufacturing industry depends upon.
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Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is the industry term for the computers behind the machinery in power plants, water treatment centres, traffic controls and other utilities.
In that letter, he inquired about an AGA report called AGA-12 and efforts by the AGA to develop security standards for SCADA systems (supervisory control and data acquisition).
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For example, a lot of critical infrastructure and manufacturing processes use supervisory, control and data acquisition software (SCADAS) that, as it turns out, have lots of security holes.
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On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.
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We like the company because their recent acquisition of Medco means they can control reimbursement payments to retail pharmacies more completely and negotiate down their costs.
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And should U.S. Bancorp make a big acquisition, Davis has the cost-control skills to make it pay.
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Chuang thinks software acquisition and development costs are already out of control, and products like his will lead to more cost-cutting.
Huawei executives insist they weren't trying to hide anything from the government and note that they filed with the Commerce Department seeking to classify the technology under export control requirements before the company completed the acquisition.
And there are some 5, 000 little independent labs remaining that collectively control about 20%, each one a potential acquisition.
That is, a written clause in the bond indenture that says, if a control change occurs (i.e. merger, acquisition or LBO) then bondholders have the right to put their bonds back to the company at a predetermined price when a sale of substantially all the assets occurs.
The firm had resurrected the historic brand in response to the decision by German rivals BMW to take control of the Rolls Royce marque, and Volkswagen's acquisition of Bentley.
He is not ruling out the businesses of Indonesia's Salim family, which holds 31% of First Pacific. (Other Salim allies control 23% more.) Two conditions have to be met: the acquisition must make commercial sense for First Pacific and its minority shareholders, and it must satisfy Hong Kong's rules on connected-party transactions.
The acquisition of the Ekati Mine, and its operating team, is expected to close next week giving us operational control of both a producing mine and development opportunities in the large scale resources on the Ekati property.
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