Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

[Grant Edwards]

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