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Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms
Appendix B: Glossary and Acronyms
Pages 407-417
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. Adult verification service is a service provided to businesses that validates the adult status of certain customers.
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Boolean logic refers to a system of logic based on operators such as AND, OR, and NOT. In many search engines, search terms are linked with these Boolean operators to formulate more precise queries.
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Cybersex referee to online real-time dialog with someone (usually textbased) that interactively describes sexual behavior and actions with one's online partner for erotic purposes and expression.
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is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. For example, the domain name "www.national academies.org" might translate to "198.105.232.4." Download refers to the act of copying data (usually an entire file)
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Much like AOL's Instant Messenger service, ICQ provides interactive chat and file transfer, and can alert users when someone on their predefined list has come online. ICRA is the Internet Content Rating Association (www.icra.org)
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Minor is a term generally used in a legal context to denote individuals who are younger than adults. Modem is a device that enables a computer to transmit digital data over analog telephone lines.
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Whenever the user tries to leave the site by closing the browser window or going to a new URL, the site that is mousetrapping will automatically open a new browser window with its URL or not allow the browser to go to the new URL. MPEG is a term that refers to the family of digital video compression standards and file formats developed by the Motion Picture Encoding Group (hence, MPEG)
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Precision is a measure of the effectiveness of information retrieval and is often expressed as the ratio of relevant documents to the total number of documents retrieved in response to a specific search. For example, using a Web search engine, if a search retrieves 100 documents, but only 30 of them are truly relevant to the search, the precision would be 30 percent.
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Streaming media refers to a technique for transferring data in such a way that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream (as opposed to the user's needing to download the entire file before being able to view or listen to it)
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Virtual hosting refers to the ability of Internet service providers or Web site operators to "host" Web sites or other services for different entities on one computer while giving the appearance that they exist on separate servers. For instance, with virtual hosting, one might have Web sites from two separate, distinct organizations residing on and being served from one particular server (with one particular IP address)
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The W3C works with the global community to help establish international standards for client and server protocols that enable communications on the Internet.
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