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INDEX 929

resource misappropriation and,

V3:69–70

threats to resources,V3:64 –69

Physicians, Internet and,V2:586 –591.See

alsoElectronic medical records;

Medical entries

Piconets,V1:93, 95

Pilgrimages, religious,V2: 806

PillBid auction site,V1: 131

PillBot database,V1: 131

“Ping flooding” denial-of-service attack,

V1: 363

“Pinging” method,V1: 67

Piracy.SeeSoftware piracy

Pivoting,V2:691, 692

Place-based communities, online,

V2:738–739

Plagiarism,V2:469– 470

Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS),

V2:540 –541;V3:667.See also

Telephone entries

Plaintext,V1:686, 694

Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle,V2:169,

175

Planning, c-commerce,V1:210 –212.See

alsoBusiness plans; Capacity

planning; Disaster recovery planning;

E-commerce project marketing plans;

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP);

Financial planning software;

Functional planning; Human resource

planning; Resource planning; Security

planning

Platform for Internet Content Selection

(PICS),V2: 132

Platform independence,V1: 6

Platform services,V1: 208

Platform standardization,V1: 542

PLATO “Talk,”V1: 665

Plug-in applications,V1: 829

Plug-in components, Java,V2: 411

PlusShorts,V2: 209

PNG image files,V1:821–822

Pocket Internet Explorer,V2: 637

Pocket Outlook,V2: 637

PocketPass,V1: 641

PocketPC,V2:628–629

Pointcast network,V3: 678

Pointers, C/C++,V1:167–168

Pointer sites,V1:515–516, 524

Point-of-Sale (POS) systems,V1:230.See

alsoPOS servers

Point-to-point information transfer,

V1: 111

Point-to-point network,V1: 184

Point-to-point wiring,V1: 267

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP),V1:200;

V2:323;V3: 426

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP),

V2:323;V3:426, 799

Policies:

denial-of-service-attack,V1: 430

in developing nations,V1:435– 437, 438

library system,V2: 482

network,V2: 546

Political activism, DoS attacks and,

V1: 425

Political applications,V2: 296

Political campaigns,V3:90 –91

Political learning tools,V3:87–88

Political participation, modes of,V3: 93

Political parties, on the Web,V3:91–92

Political sites,V2:773–774

Politics,V3:84 –95

choice and participation in,V3:85–87

institutional model of,V3: 87

“machine,”V3:84 –85

mass public and,V3:87–90

political institutions,V3:90 –93

Polymorphic viruses,V1:254, 259

Polymorphism,V3: 610

POP3 e-mail accounts,V1: 664

Pornography,V2:221–222.See alsoChild

pornography

access to,V2: 106

as a free speech issue,V2:465– 466

online,V2: 222

Pornography industry,V1: 300

PORSEL system,V3: 243

Portability, Java,V2:380 –381

Portable Document Format (PDF),

V1:772.See alsoPDF format books

files in,V1: 820

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format,

V1:821–822

Port addresses,V1:183, 184

Portal Web site,V3: 772

Portals,V1:134, 136 –137, 486;

V2:305–309

architecture of,V2:305–307

collaborative,V2:68–69

financial,V3:277–279

intranets as,V2:346 –347

multimedia,V2:207–208

religious,V2: 804

types of,V2: 307

Port filtering,V1:832, 839

Portfolio selection, online,V3: 243

Portney, Ken,V2: 343

Ports,V2:250, 304;V3: 429

“Positive identification systems,”V1:72,

73

POS servers,V3: 253

POST method,V1:173–174

Post Office Protocol (POP),V1:664, 670.

See alsoPOP3 e-mail accounts

PostScript,V1:772, 820

Power:

calculation of received,V3:127–128

maintenance and conditioning of,

V3:74 –76

Power anomalies,V3:66 –67

Powerline LANs,V2: 539

Power loss, modeling,V3:126 –127

Power Point accessibility plug-in,V3: 490

Power supplies, uninterruptable,V1:431,

433

Power units,V3: 133

Practical Extraction and Report Language

(Perl),V1:172, 225;V2:206, 412– 413;

V3:34 –50

CGI scripts in,V1: 219

history of,V3:34 –35

network programming in,

V3:45– 49

overview of,V3:35– 43

sample programs in,V3:43– 45

Prayers, online,V2: 806

Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM),

V3: 117

Precision Agriculture Systems (PAS),

V2: 27

Predictive coding,V1:392–394

Preference-based queries,V3: 58

Preference modeling,V3:57–58

Prefetching,V2: 531

Prefix codes,V1: 385

Prescription drugs,V2: 596

Presentation-Application-Data (P-A-D)

architecture,V1:194, 195, 202

Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) system,V1: 54

Price competition,V1: 485

Price discrimination,V1:610, 611

Priceline,V1:131–132, 287–288, 606

Pricing:

e-commerce,V1: 610

e-manufacturing,V1: 723

flexible,V1: 723

strategies for global,V1: 814

in wireless marketing,V3:856 –857

Pricing models:

advertising,V2: 566

Application-Service-Provider,V1:42– 43

Primary Key (PK),V1:375, 376, 377

Primary Rate Interface (PRI) service,

V2:182–183, 184

Primary storage,V1: 231

Primitive data types,V2: 408

Principal Register, of USPTO,V3:449, 450

Print publishing conventions,V2:791–793

Prioritization, in Web services,V3:715,

719

Privacy.See alsoConfidentiality; Private

entries

application service providers and,

V1:44–45

biometric authentication and,V1:78–79

CPA firm,V3: 153

customer database,V2: 568

customer relationship management and,

V1:322–323

cyberlaw and,V1: 341

cyberterrorism and,V1: 367

in data warehousing,V1: 422

defined,V3:96 –97

digital economy and,V1:487– 488

digital identity and,V1:493– 494

e-mail,V2:276 –277

extranet,V1: 798

in global electronic commerce,V2:58–59

human resources management and,

V2:158–159

of information,V2:470 – 473

international cyberlaw and,V2:221–226

Internet censorship and,V2:270 –271

law enforcement and,V3:99–100

library management and,V2: 484

marketing and,V2: 571

monitoring and regulating,V1: 115

online consumer,V1: 279

of personal health data,V2: 92

personalization and,V3:61–62

in securities trading,V3: 276

views of,V2:222–223

Web site design and,V1: 280

in wireless marketing,V3:855–856

Privacy law,V3:96 –107.See alsoPrivacy

policy

business and,V3:100 –101

consumer Internet privacy,V3:101–104