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.
TCP/IP is the suite of protocols used by the Internet and most LANs throughout the world. In TCP/IP, every host (computer or other communications device) that is connected to the network has a unique IP address. An IP address is composed of four octets (numbers in the range of 0 to 255) separated by decimal points. The IP address is used to uniquely identify a host or computer on the LAN.