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Re: "Downloading"

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Subject Re: "Downloading"
Date Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:15:21 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-12-01, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-12-01, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer.
>>
>> I'm a little bit confused as to what kinds of file transfers
>> you think don't have at least two endpoints.
>
>>From some other computer to the one you're controlling it from. A

> download is initiated by the recipient; an upload is initiated by the
> sender.

Nope.  It doesn't depend on who initiated the transfer, up/down is a
direction. I upload things to the Host on the Internet, and I download
things to the circuit board on my bench.  In both cases I initiate the
transaction


           [ Host on The Internet ]
                     |
                [my computer]
                     |
        [circuit board I'm working on]                      

            
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Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I invented skydiving
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Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-01 20:49 +0200
  Re: "Downloading" Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-12-01 19:05 +0000
    Re: "Downloading" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-02 10:46 +1100
      Re: "Downloading" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 10:56 +1100
  Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-12-01 11:11 -0800
  Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 14:19 -0600
  Re: "Downloading" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 10:05 +1100
    Re: "Downloading" Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-02 15:15 +0000
      Re: "Downloading" Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-12-02 18:37 +0200
        Re: "Downloading" Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-12-02 12:10 -0800
  Re: "Downloading" Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 17:28 -0600
  Re: "Downloading" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 10:32 +1100
  Re: "Downloading" Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-01 23:37 +0000
  Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-02 01:22 +0100
  Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2015-12-02 08:57 +0000
    Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-12-02 09:42 +0000
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-02 15:20 +0000
        Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-03 06:21 +0200
          Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-12-03 07:43 +0200
    Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2015-12-02 04:09 -0600
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-02 15:20 +0000
    Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-12-02 08:36 -0800
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-02 17:53 +0100
      Re: Is <someone> secretly downloading <some stuff> to your computer ?! Rob Hills <rhills@medimorphosis.com.au> - 2015-12-03 01:00 +0800
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 11:32 -0600
        Re: stuff and nonsense Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 22:51 +0000
          Re: stuff and nonsense Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-03 01:46 +0100
            Re: stuff and nonsense Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 01:28 +0000
          Re: stuff and nonsense Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-03 07:37 -0500
    Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2015-12-03 14:24 +0800
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-12-03 10:00 +0100
        Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 20:11 +1100
      Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2015-12-03 09:16 +0000
        Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> - 2015-12-04 11:22 +0800

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