Is Microsoft Windows secretly downloading childporn to your computer ?!
Steve Hayes
hayesstw at telkomsa.net
Thu Dec 3 00:43:24 EST 2015
On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:21:45 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>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.
To which I will add that uploading is sending, and downloading is
fetching.
So saying that Microsoft downloaded something to my computer is like
saying that someone fetched me a ltter when they actually sent it.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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