In fact packet switching predated the Internet by a lot. Baran was writing about it in principle in 1961 - 1964, and Davies invented the term in 1965. Licklider knew about it from early days.
I wrote about packet switching in a section on the Internet for a general audience book. The analogy I used was a long message to be carried by pigeon, and split into smaller messages to not overload the pigeons and make them vulnerable to hawks.
Or you could compare it to only being able to snailmail one sheet of paper per envelope. Want to mail a 250 page manuscript? You send it in 250 envelopes.
Pigeons are more fun. I did talk about the post office as an analogy to a connectionless protocol, where when you send a letter you don’t know its path or even if it got there unless you pay extra. In any case, since the pigeons might not be able to make it all the way I got to introduce store and forward also.
My editor loved it.
Ah yes, good old RFC 1149
I assume you’re familiar with RFC 1149?
EDIT: <shakes fist at @Great_Antibob >
Shaking fists is the new ninjae’d? Nice, will remember that. Concerning the packages, was one relevant part not that the packages include information about the completeness of the information received and some redundancy to guarantee that completeness? You did not just split the 250 page manuscript in 250 pages, but you also included information about how and in which order to reassemble them and what to do when a bit is missing. The total number of pages is bigger than 250 in the end, but the security of successful delivery is boosted by orders of magnitude.
That is how I understood it anyway, may be wrong. Oversimplified for sure.
The guy already “sued” him and won. That’s why we’re having this thread.
I remain somewhat skeptical of the American legal system’s ability to exact real justice, what can I tell you?
I suppose, but my amusement is mitigated somewhat by the fact that when (if) he gets the money he’ll probably just turn around and give it to the America-hating fuckstick.
See, this is the beauty of it.
The much-hated respondent (Mikey Pillows) is burdened with the first of many unpayable multi-million dollar judgements that will tank him forever.
The unsavory winning plaintiff will never see one red cent, because Lindell, so the victory is both humiliating to Pillow-boy and fruitless for the rest of the bag of degenerates.
Speaking of that I do remember that one flat earther, on another site, pointed out that space pictures are taken with a fisheye lens. and that means that curvature of the earth is fake 
, of course a picture used as an example did show also how the space station metal columns looked curved too, when one digitally corrected the distortion in the columns, the earth remained curved.
Was actually implemented once.
I wonder if Pillow would be able to deduct any of the loss. It sucks that Fox can do that.
I don’t know, is MyPillow liable, or is he personally liable?
A friend of mine once had the personalized license plate, UUCP IT.
That’s awesome! I got the data loss through hawks right at least.
Interesting that this thread died in the same month that Lindell started to stiff his lawyers (the lawyers which, today, filed a motion to be taken off his defense):
Yes, but getting an arbitration award enforced is a lot easier than proving one’s case in court a priori. Depending on the relevant state law, the claimant likely just has to show that the arbitratration award is not clearly erroneous. Then he can start filing liens and the like. It is difficult to discharge civil judgments in bankruptcy so this sort of thing will follow Lindell for a while.
In other news, Pillow is puzzled as to why he lost his line of credit. If anybody loves him, this 5 mil challenge should be evidence for a psych hold.
Or transcendental?