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| Thread ID: 81344 | 2007-07-24 22:42:00 | Internet Question | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 572359 | 2007-07-24 22:42:00 | When one's computer is on..say on DSL...is it just waiting for something to come it's way and then capture whatever it is if it's addressed correctly to that particular computer? Or..do all computers just see EVERYTHING on the web and collect what is theirs? Or..another way...is the web floating with just everything ever written or uploaded and the receiver is looking for anything addressed to it? Maybe that's not too clear...:waughh: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 572360 | 2007-07-24 22:50:00 | I doubt the computers see everything on the web - the two monitors of your connection don't blink the whole time, do they? I reckon it is more towards the first scenario which you have described, in which computers send out data requesting what they want, and when the webserver has found it, the computers receive it. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 572361 | 2007-07-24 23:01:00 | Interesting thought...huh? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 572362 | 2007-07-24 23:21:00 | Joe... theoretically yes... if anything or anyone on the Internet is aware of your IP address while you're connected, and it sends or requests something from the computer at that IP, then your computer will receive or send it. That is, unless your firewall forbids it. But to add to that, there's lots of bots (and humans) who do wide port scanning, and they too will try and either get information from your machine or get you to involuntarily send information. Having said the above, I'm wondering if you're actually asking about website pages? Which of course is only part of what the Internet consists of. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 572363 | 2007-07-25 01:55:00 | Interesting thought...huh? Hmmmmmmmm |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 572364 | 2007-07-25 03:20:00 | Or..do all computers just see EVERYTHING on the web and collect what is theirs? Not yet, they haven't achieved sentience yet. Read a story yesterday by Cory Doctorow, who had them becoming AI via the war between spambots and spamfilters. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 572365 | 2007-07-25 06:51:00 | When one's computer is on . . say on DSL . . . is it just waiting for something to come it's way and then capture whatever it is if it's addressed correctly to that particular computer? Or . . do all computers just see EVERYTHING on the web and collect what is theirs? Or . . another way . . . is the web floating with just everything ever written or uploaded and the receiver is looking for anything addressed to it? Maybe that's not too clear . . . :waughh: You are thinking of a local LAN ethernet setup . This is not the way the internet works . The internet is actually an internetwork - a network between networks . It has a different structure . Your machine is allocated an IP address by your ISP, and you can only see traffic addressed to that IP . |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 572366 | 2007-07-25 16:26:00 | Let me move this in a different direction them... If you are on (not saying I am) a P2P or torrent site, then you are opening your files to the rest of the people on the web..right? So..assuming that's a correct statement, then you are open to anyone...right? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 572367 | 2007-07-25 22:57:00 | Let me move this in a different direction them... If you are on (not saying I am) a P2P or torrent site, then you are opening your files to the rest of the people on the web..right? So..assuming that's a correct statement, then you are open to anyone...right? If you use P2P/bittorrent and you have a resource to offer, your details (and that of the resource) are recorded somewhere by a tracker (either centralised or decentralised). When someone wants to download this resource, they will get the information from the tracker. So you are opening files you select for others to download, and anyone who wants to download it, can. They cannot download files you have not deliberately and explicitly made available for download. |
vinref (6194) | ||
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