The server just happens to be a well know location for a service that can be connected to. The client initiates the connection. Once the connection is establised the "server" and the "client" effectively become "clients" of each other, when the output of one is plugged into the input of the other.

For example, in .net land (it's where I am, forgive me) you have a TcpListener on the server side. Then when a client connects using a TcpClient, the server creates a corresponding TcpClient on the server side. Writing to the client's TcpClient.Stream will allow you to read from the servers TcpClient.Stream, and vice versa.

Your API should probably be considering the establishment of the connection, rather than the connection itself.

You don't keep a copy of the image in question. You keep a hash to detect duplicates and a simhash to flag potential duplicates.

now it's a ghost town.

Visual Studio 2010, a core flagship MS product, is written in WPF.

Nope

Beta 1, Beta 2 and the very publicly available RC.

Screen cap from MSDN

en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x86_dvd_349010.iso MD5 Hash: 8867c13330f56a93944bcd46dcd73590
en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x64_dvd_347803.iso MD5 Hash: 98341af35655137966e382c4feaa282d

The x64 leak on mininova has the same MD5

Because it removes the human aspect from the equation. Humans always fuck processes up, from losing the tapes, to that one time they forget to take the backup home, to having it robbed from their home.

If it goes offsite, automated it.

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This your data on-site: "Pursuant to 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A), this communication serves as a statement that:"

This is your data off-site: "sTvmSb6+vr7O+7axOVlPvX8D1btvmjR9+IbKmfaB/KNElDqr7f64P7sl7EMWVe/F2el7ujaO4MHUz8zF9A/byG1ORdM4X7PWrfdbdwDpaMHYfPn5+Tqn"

Subpoena away baby!

> Losing data is suicide because it shows a lack of due diligence. Expecting humans to follow exact process, without fail, every day show a lack of due diligence.

This your data on-site: "Pursuant to 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A), this communication serves as a statement that:" This is your data off-site: "sTvmSb6+vr7O+7axOVlPvX8D1btvmjR9+IbKmfaB/KNElDqr7f64P7sl7EMWVe/F2el7ujaO4MHUz8zF9A/byG1ORdM4X7PWrfdbdwDpaMHYfPn5+Tqn" Subpoena away baby! > Losing data is suicide because it shows a lack of due diligence. Expecting humans to follow exact process, without fail, every day show a lack of due diligence.

You fucking MUPPET!

Because people who install .Net framework may want to be able to run click-once apps and not have to use IE.