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.
An IP address is a number given to a computer (a server or a personal computer) by the ISP. The most commonly used IP address is a 32-bit (4 byte) address. It looks like this in the decimal system: 172.16.0.1.