The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS),developed by the W3C, is a content rating scheme, which provides content labels for information on the Internet and is mostly used to rate a document in terms of adult content http: //www w3 org/PICS/
Rules that enable Web content providers to use meta tags to voluntarily rate their content according to agreed-upon PICS criteria Browsers can then block user access to Web sites based on the values of the tags
PICS is a no-longer-prominent rating technology developed by the W3 Org which was (in the popular mind) mainly for preventing children from being exposed to inappropriate material In truth, it is a general and well though-out rating system with an emphasis on filtering things out rather than on both excluding and finding things according to ratings
Platform for Internet Content Selection - the technology which allows bodies to review and apply ratings to Web sites
Platform for Internet Content Selection Internet content filtering infrastructure http: //www w3 org/PICS/
The PICS specification enables labels to be associated with Internet content It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy
Acronym for Platform for Internet Content Selection, a model for associating labels with content in header metadata, originally devised to help parents and teachers and filtering software control children's access to the net See the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) PICS Page for further information
The PICS standard is used to label the content of web sites and newsgroups In and of itself PICS contains no rating information Instead, it relies on third parties such as SafeSurf to provide the actual ratings The PICS puts rating information on web sites in a predictable, uniform way, much as nutritional labels present food content Various parental discretion software packages, as well as Microsofts browsers, Internet Explorer 3 0 and 4 0, use PICS to block access to inappropriate sites
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement: A statement made by the supplier of an implementation or system stating which capabilities have been implemented for a given protocol
A standardized format for rating systems Note that PICS is not a rating system itself You could use PICS to rate how quickly sites download, or international languages (French, Spanish,German, etc )--or, as most people think of them, for G/PG-13/R/X content ratings
Platform for Internet Content Selection An evolving set of specifications governing the creation and use of ratings for Web information, including HTML files, as well as image, sound, and animation files Content providers can rate and label their own Web information; also, independent rating services can rate Web information Internet users can then request the ratings as a way to preview and filter Web information for acceptable content
(Platform for Internet Content Selection) - Technology that allows Web browsers to read content ratings of Web sites Content ratings are administered by the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA), an independent, non-profit organization (See also "ICRA" and "RSACi")
(Platform for Independent Content Section) It is a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access PICS members believe that individuals, groups and businesses should have easy access to the widest possible range of content selection products, and a diversity of voluntary rating systems
(Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier): PIC codes are 7-digit prefixes which identify US long distance carriers to the local exchange carriers (LEC) This allows the customers to use a different long-distance carriers for separate calls The PIC code is configured as a prefix to the dialed number Most PICs are of the format 1010xxx
(Primary Interexchange Carrier) This is the long distance company to which traffic from a given location is automatically routed when dialing 1+ in equal access areas When a subscriber switches long distance carriers, it often is referred to as a PIC change
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"
- Primary Interexchange Carrier A PIC is the long distance company that the user wants to handle his or her 1+ calls This information is fed into your local carrier's computer banks to determine proper billing
Personal Identification Code Used to protect a digital certificate file prior to importation into the ECI A PIC is provided by post as part of the Digital Certificate issuing process
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