But this year, ten states have sought to place restrictions on birth control usage.
The E.P.A. puts vehicles through five tests to simulate varying driving conditions and levels of climate-control usage.
Again, however, the biggest opportunity is in overseas companies such as US group Badger Meter, whose water metres help control usage, or fellow American ITT, whose services include waste treatment.
One reason is political: wary of the organizing potential of the Internet, the government was early to adopt a medical imprimatur that could be invoked for efforts to control usage of the Web.
Where the stiff-necked moral right of a copyright holder to control usage rubs up against the practicalities of allowing an entire industry's capacity for cultural exchange and use, the law usually responds by converting the moral right to an economic right.
This chapter explores basic control interactions, control usage, commands, labels, feedback, errors, warnings, and confirmations.
The MicroISP protocol allows users to monitor and control usage and supports recovery in case of a MicroISP or user computer crash.
For example, power grid systems have humans that control usage; operators that control distribution and even control generation (reselling of power generated by solar panels back to the grid).
But with a smart grid in place, a utility could restructure rates, and then offer all its customers products that allow either the customer, or the utility, to control usage based on demand and hourly rates.
