Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!

[Steve Hayes]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield <rjh at cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 02/12/15 08:57, 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?
>>
>> 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.

In my usage it all has to do with sending and receiving, like
immigration and emigration. 

I UPload photos from my cell phone to Facebook. 

I DOWNload photos from my cell phone to my desktop computer. 


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