* Posts by Paul Rawdon

11 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jul 2008

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Paul Rawdon

Metric makes a lot of sense, as a kid it was on the 10th July 1967 the day we in New Zealand decimalised the currency that I remembered that there was 240 pence in the pound.

Another thing I noticed in the article is that the author was using the American form of English what has happened to UK English?

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

Paul Rawdon

Fox Hunting Not real foxes but radio ones

The art of Fox Hunting that is searching for a hidden radio transmitter seems to be forgotten here. It's a simple matter of triangulating the source of the signal and you've got the culprit. Any EX GPO radio inspector would have the know how, after all, they would have spent many hours tracking pirate radio stations.

Ransomware scum have already unleashed kill-switch-free WannaCry‬pt‪ variant

Paul Rawdon

XP

The update would have been already made for the cash register software based on XP that is still being updated.

How Microsoft will cram Windows 10 even harder down your PC's throat early next year

Paul Rawdon

28 times faster than Windows 7?

Utter and complete baloney, it sits for ages with that stupid circle thing making up its mind whether it will disappear or not then finally the desktop appears. It's more like 28 times slower than Windows 7.

It's the FALKLANDS SYNDROME! Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause '10,000 Chernobyls' in South Atlantic

Paul Rawdon

Almost had me lol

Nice try this published on 1 April? I smell a rat!

The China Syndrome, assuming that a nuclear reactor melted down in the US and went through the Earth's core it will end up in the Indian Ocean not in China hehe.

BT Tower is just a relic? Wrong: It relays 18,000hrs of telly daily

Paul Rawdon

The complete 'Our World' (1967) broadcast is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9IhSJ6ZjA

Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! are! back!...

Paul Rawdon

Hacked in New Zealand too

This hacking attack is similar or the same as what happened to NZ Telecom's xtra email accounts where a few thousand email accounts were broken into.

Former FBI agent slams defence tactics in McKinnon case

Paul Rawdon

It's what you would expect

From someone involved with prosecuting the case, anything less would result in a loss of face. Gary caught the yanks with their pants down, the issue is not what he did but the fact that he exposed the poor security and caused embarrassment.

McKinnon suffers further legal setback in extradition fight

Paul Rawdon

That figures

The mentality of the so called 'officials' will be that because Garry has just received a diagnosis, Asperger's syndrome was not the cause because he didn't have it then. What they won't realise that unlike the flu, Aspergers syndrome is a life long disorder that would have been with him since birth.

MPs join fight to save McKinnon from US prison

Paul Rawdon

Realistic penalty required

I think two issues are going on here, firstly whose computer system it was and the hacker's background.

1) As it was the Pentagon's computer system, there will be a huge amount of lost face. The fact that someone managed to hack in to the system suggests that security was lacking. There are bound to be many red faces. The attack on esteem would be viewed more seriously than any damage (if any) that was caused.

2) Asperger's syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, some of the characteristics of the disorder include a poor ability to read other people's motives, body language among others, he will be at risk in a prison environment. What is required is a penalty that is suitable.

A major problem with Asperger's syndrome is that in the majority of cases, there is little outward sign save for somewhat eccentric behaviour (in some people) to suggest that there is anything wrong.

I wager that if McKinnon had a disability that was visible, there would be no chance of him being shipped off to the states. If the American's get their way, it would be imperative that he has suitable backup support and have access to professionals who have an adequate knowledge of autism spectrum disorders to argue his case.

MS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed

Paul Rawdon

Bring Back Windows 95

I wish I could run Windows 95 on my computer, next to XP I think that was the best OS. It will be interesting to see how it runs on Windows 3.11.