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| 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> |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
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.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm pretending that
at we're all watching PHIL
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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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