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- noun Plural form of
packet . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
packet .
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Examples
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The eight foundation cards, as they appear in the deal (whether they fall on the corner or on the side packets), are to be at once played in the space reserved for them, and on these may be played any suitable cards which in dealing fall _on either of the four corner packets_; but when a card (otherwise suitable) falls on either of the _side packets_, it may not be played unless the foundation to which it belongs happens to be the one _immediately adjoining the side packet on which that card fell in dealing_.
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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In the United Kingdom a number of varieties of loose Tea sold in packets from the 1940s to the 1970s contained tea cards.
All about Tea 1995
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This just goes to show that merely looking at the source address of the packets is a lousy way to track back the true source of an attack — yet that lousy practice seems to be standard, among people who like to blame an attack on the Chinese, or North Koreans, or Russians.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Broadcasting from Cybersecurity’s Ground Zero 2010
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At a more granular level, the information used to route packets is derived from the physical, data link, network, and transport layers of the packet.
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Ignoring the forged RST packets is amazingly easy to do if you have a Linux or BSD router available.
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Keep in mind that the single biggest source of attacks, if you go by the source address of the malicious packets, is machines in the US.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Broadcasting from Cybersecurity’s Ground Zero 2010
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I FINALLY got around to making your marshmallows and while converting gelatin packets into teaspoons and forgot that there were three and only added the equivalent of one packet.
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Cooking “en papillote”, or in wrapped packets, is healthy and fairly foolproof.
Cook En Papillote For Efficient, Healthy Meals | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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They were homogeneous, reasonably durable, and of convenient size for the smallest or, in packets, for the largest transactions.
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They were homogeneous, reasonably durable, and of convenient size for the smallest or, in packets, for the largest transactions.
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