In common usage, the baud rate of a modem is the number of bits it can send or receive in a second. Technically, baud is the number of times in a second that the carrier signal shifts value - for example a 1200 bit-per-second modem actually runs at 300 baud, but it moves 4 bits per baud [(4 x 300) bits per second = 1200 bits per second].

means: in or with good faith; honestly; without fraud, collusion, or participation in wrong doing.

refers to the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, signed at Berne, Switzerland, on September 9, 1886, and all acts, protocols, and revisions thereto.

An international treaty extending protection of copyright in member countries to nationals of other member countries.

A business name is a name under which a business operates. Business name registration provides a means of identifying the owners of the business and is obtained under state or territory legislation. Registration of a business name does not provide proprietary rights.

A set of Bits that represent a single character. Usually there are 8 Bits in a Byte, sometimes more, depending on how the measurement is being made.

See Also: Bit

A software defect caused by an error in design or programming.

(By The Way) -- A shorthand appended to a comment written in an online forum.

A Client program (software) that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.

(Bits-Per-Second) -- A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another. A 28.8 modem can move 28,800 bits per second.

(Because it’s Time NETwork or because it’s there NETwork) is a network of educational sites distinct and separate from the Internet. However, e-mail is freely exchanged between BITNET and the Internet. Listservs®, the most popular form of e-mail discussion groups, originated on BITNET. BITNET machines are usually mainframes running on the VMS operating system, and the network is probably the only international network that is shrinking. 

(Binary DigIT) - A bit is the smallest unit of data transfer on a computer network. Bits represent the two binary values ‘on’ or ‘off’ and are often stored on computers as the digital numbers '1' and '0'. However, in networking, it is also possible to ‘encode’ bits by electrical signals and pulses of light. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second.

See Also: Bandwidth, bps, Byte

(BINary HEXadecimal) -- A method for converting non-text files (non-ASCII) into ASCII. This is needed because Internet e-mail can only handle ASCII.

(Bulletin Board System) - A computerized meeting and announcement system that makes it possible for users to engage in discussions, upload and download files and make announcements without the people necessarily being connected to the computer simultaneously. There are many thousands of them across the globe, most being very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. On the other hand, there are also those that are very large and the line between a BBS and a system like CompuServe gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn. 

Bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources (average rate of successful data transfer through a communication path) expressed in bit/sec. or its multiples (kbit/sec., Mbit/sec. etc.) .A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. A fast modem can move about 15,000 bits in one second. A full-motion full-screen video would require about 10,000,000 bits per second. 

A backbone in the given context is a line or series of connections that works fast and forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network is likely to be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.