Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.python,comp.mobile.android,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <519af$565d03d9$d47876e2$19871@news.ziggo.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1449069613 27948 67.130.15.94 (2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:77622 comp.lang.c++:39205 comp.lang.python:99893 comp.mobile.android:24279 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:693 On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield wrote: > On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote: >> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes wrote: >>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer. >> >> It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and >> starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker >> "downloading" things to your computer? > > My understanding of the term has always been that you upload from a > smaller device to a larger, and download from a larger device to a > smaller. Thus, from your laptop you might *up*load data to a Web server > or a mainframe, but you would *down*load data to your phone or tablet. That's sort of the usage I'm used to, but it probably has more to do with network topology than CPU power. Servers on the internet are at the top of the diagram, and embedded devices that can't access the internet directly are at the bottom with my PC somewhere in the middle. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Are you still an at ALCOHOLIC? gmail.com