The Internet Encyclopedia (Volume 3)

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Legislation.See alsoLaw(s)

electronic signature,V2: 227

Internet privacy,V1: 488

Leisure activities, digital economy and,

V1:489– 490

Lempel–Ziv dictionary coding,V1: 397

Liability, disclaimers of,V1: 344

Liberty Alliance,V1:496, 497, 502, 504

Libraries.See alsoActiveX Template

Library (ATL); Berkeley Digital

Library SunSITE; Bulletin Board for

Libraries (BUBL); Digital libraries;

Digital Library eXtension Service

(DLXS) software suite; Dynamic Link

Library (DLL) modules; ebrary;

Internet Archive; Internet Library of

Early Journals; Internet Public

Library; Internet Public Library; Joint

Conference on Digital Libraries

(JCDL); Library management;

National Digital Library Program

(NDLP); NetLibrary; ODBC Cursor

Library (ODBCCR32.DLL); Oxford

University Bodleian Library; Project

Gutenberg; Standard Template Library

(STL); Template libraries; World Wide

Web Virtual Library

as Internet access points,V1: 469

exemption from circumvention

provisions,V1: 310

research and,V3:206 –207

virtual,V2:789–790

Library for Web Access in Perl (LWP),

V3:46–47

Library management,V2:477– 485

information professionals in,

V2:483– 484

Internet and,V2:477– 481

library function management,

V2:481– 483

planning of,V2:481– 482

Library materials:

acquisition of,V2: 479

circulation of,V2: 480

License-controlled model,V1: 42

Licensing,V1: 15

export,V2: 238

open source,V2:819, 826, 827, 829–830

Lie & Bos recommendations, for CSS

practices,V1:160 –161

Lifetime Customer Value (LCV),

V1:318–319, 324

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

(LDAP), security with,V2:328–329

Limewire,V3: 30

Linear and Time-Invariant (LTI) system,

V1: 463

Linear programming models,V3:392–393

Line filters,V3:74 –75

Line of Sight (LOS) propagation,V3: 125

Link Access Protocol—D (LAPD) channel,

V2: 184

Linkage information, use by search

engines,V3:741–743

Linkers,V1:165–166, 174

Linking.See alsoIdentity linking

copyright infringement and,V1: 306

law of,V1:348–349

Linking agreements,V1: 348

Link layer,V1: 200

Link manager, BluetoothTM,V1: 89

Link Manager Protocol (LMP),V1: 89

Link pseudoclasses,V1: 157

Linux operating system,V2:486 – 498,

823–825

Beowulf and,V3: 27

development of,V2: 493

distributions of,V2:494 – 495

future of,V2:495– 496

hardware architectures and,V2: 494

history of,V2:491– 494

password issues related to,V3: 8

popularity of,V2: 493

usefulness of,V2:488– 491

vendor support for,V2:494 – 495

worms for,V1: 256

Lion worm,V1: 256

Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs), for virtual

reality,V3: 591

Listservs,V2:69, 279, 302, 749–750;

V3:205–206

disputes concerning,V2: 747

Literacy, in developing nations,

V1:435– 436

Literature review, on nonprofit

organizations and Internet,

V2:675–676

Litigation,V2:459, 747.See alsoDispute

resolution; Law(s)

Live streaming webcasting,V3:679–680

LLC sublayer protocols,V1:177–178

Lloyd algorithm,V1: 390

Load balancing,V2:499–514

approaches to,V2: 509

client-side,V2:502–503, 512

described,V2:499–500

Internet services workload

characteristics and,V2:500 –502

network-side,V2:509–512

server-side,V2:503–509

state-blind versus state-aware,V2: 503

strategies for,V2:502–503

Load testing,V1: 150

Loans, online,V2: 727

Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs),

V3: 168

Local application logic,V1: 195

Local Area Networks (LANs),V1:85, 142,

176, 183, 261, 271;V2:515–526, 603.

See alsoLAN entries; Wireless LANs

(WLANs)

administration of,V2:524 –525

hardware and media associated with,

V2:518–520

installing,V2:522–524

role and applications of,V2:520 –521

types of,V2:516 –518

Local Exchange Carriers (LECs),V3:776,

788

Locality-Aware Request Distribution

(LARD),V2: 508

Localization, of business systems,V1: 116

Locally constrained ASPs (Application

Service Providers),V1: 37

Local presentation,V1: 195

Location-based personalization,V3:56 –57

Location-based services,V1: 607

Locked cabinets,V3: 706

Lock types, recordset,V1:30, 34

“Log analysis” packages,V2: 694

Log-based user identification,V3: 55

Log-file analyzers,V1: 405

Log files,V1: 410

Logic, trivalue,V3: 355

Logical Link Control and Adaptation

Protocol (L2CAP), BluetoothTM,

V1:90 –91

Logical operations,V1: 23

Logic bombs,V1:252, 334

“Log-in” trojans,V1: 250

Logistics,V3: 392

in supply chain management,V3: 368

Long-arm statutes,V1:346, 351

LONGDESC attribute,V3:479– 480

Long-term fading,V3:130 –131

Loop generators/editors,V2:653–654

Looping statements (loops),V2: 408

C/C++,V1:169–170

Perl,V3: 38

Los Angeles Timessite,V2: 762

Losses, disaster-related,V1:537, 547

Lossless data compression,V1:384,

385–389, 398, 458;V3:308, 537, 558

Lossy data compression,V1:384, 389–396,

398, 458, 561;V3:308, 537, 558

Lotus Notes for Domino,V2: 68

LoveLetter,V1: 251

Loyalty programs,V1:321–322, 324

Lurking,V2: 280

Machine code,V1: 165

Machine language,V1: 236

Machine learning,V2:356 –358, 532

“Machine” politics,V3:84 –85

Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC),

V2: 485

Mach microkernel,V2: 492

Macroergonomics,V2:141–142

MacroList,V1: 254

Macromedia Flash,V2:649, 657, 658.See

alsoFlash entries

Macros,V1: 254

Macro viruses,V1:248, 254 –255, 259, 328

MAC sublayer protocols,V1:177.

See alsoMessage Authentication Codes

(MACs)

“Mafia Boy” cyberterrorist,V1: 353

Magazines, electronic,V2:756.See also

Journals

Mail Application Programing Interface

(MAPI),V1: 249

Mailing lists,V3:205–206

Mail Order/Telephone Order (MOTO)

transactions,V1:637, 638

Mail Transfer Agent (MTA),V1: 180

Mainframe/thin client network operating

system,V2:543–544

Maintenance, Repair, and Operations

(MRO) material,V1:110, 120

activities with,V1: 658

Malicious parties,V1: 55

Malware,V1:250, 259

Managed Beans (MBeans),

V2:397–398

Managed care,V2:99–100

Managed colocation services,V3:706 –709

Managed Service Providers (MSPs),

V3:699–700.See alsoWeb hosting

entries

facility neutrality of,V3: 708