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Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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 2015-12-02 15:20 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <n3n28l$r9c$3@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <519af$565d03d9$d47876e2$19871@news.ziggo.nl> <uqqr5bpfejgjqjdk0epcbgic4u989joa9i@4ax.com> <n3mbq6$2uvi$2@adenine.netfront.net> <n3mfj3$feo$2@dont-email.me>

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On 2015-12-02, Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> wrote:
> Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> 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.

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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: 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 ?! "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-12-02 01:22 +0100
    Re: Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?! "Chris M. Thomasson" <nospam@nospam.nospam> - 2015-12-01 16:44 -0800
  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 ?! glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-12-02 12:40 +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 ?! 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 ?! 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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