Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!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 15:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 23 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 1449069653 27948 67.130.15.94 (2 Dec 2015 15:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:77623 comp.lang.c++:39206 comp.lang.python:99894 comp.mobile.android:24280 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:694 On 2015-12-02, Les Cargill wrote: > 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? >> >> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net --- >> > > Down is towards an end node; up is towards the backbone. Servers live > closer to the backbone. Usually. Or rather did when the nomenclature > was forged. Exactly! Thats the usage I've been used to for the past 30 years. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm pretending that at we're all watching PHIL gmail.com SILVERS instead of RICARDO MONTALBAN!