Contemporary Examples. 1  Some of the images are very poignant, like the one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes. 2  If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems. 3  All of us become covered in lice and insects, which became maddening.
'IP' stands for Internet Protocol-it decribes the way information is sent and received over the Internet. An IP number is a 32 bit number assigned to any device that wishes to communicate over the Internet. Typically the IP number is represented as a set of four numbers in the range 0-255 - an address is usually written as these four numbers separated by dots. It can also be shown as one big number in decimal or hexadecimal.
What's an IP address? Every computer on a network has a unique number. On networks such as the Internet that use the TCP/IP protocol stack (which is most networks nowadays), the unique number is called an IP address. When computers on a TCP/IP network talk to each other, they address themselves by IP address.