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John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers"
An anonymous reader writes "The IT security pioneer John McAfee has launched a blog to document his life on the lam, as Belize police chase him down for suspicion of killing a neighbor. McAfee is using the blog to state his case, raise suspicions about Belize authorities and to offer a $25K reward to find the real killer or killers. From the article: 'McAfee writes that he is on run with a 20-year-old female named Sam, photos of whom are in the blog, along with a post from her. McAfee says a handful of friends and associates have been rounded up by police over the past week or so. His posts are filled with dramatic descriptions of his actions (including returning to his home in disguise to find police digging up his dead dogs and cutting off their heads) and lay bare his suspicions about Belize authorities. '"
There once was a man from Belize
Who neglected his bribery fees
Accused of a murder
He became a sheepherder
Fighting for refugees!
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
Hans Reiser?
When you start defending yourself with the same phrases as OJ Simpson, you might be on the wrong side of the law. Looking for the real killer...
That is all.
He should defend himself in court.
Programmer named John
Millionaire! Where does he live?
Mud hut with no lawn
Unless a person is being framed, an innocent person has no reason to flee law enforcement because they are suspected of a crime.
All running does is increase the perception that the person is guilty.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
She looks okay to me, kinda cute. As long as someone is at least average in looks, their personality counts for a lot more in the end. There have been women that I don't consider that attractive, that start looking more attractive once I get to know them. Then there have been women who I initially find attractive, that just repulse me once I get to know them.
which is totally what she said
If Belize is out for his head, why not just GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE? Why the hell is this idiot still hanging around?
he and his 17 year old girlfriend are being chased around town by the cops for unlicensed drug manufacture, posession of an unlicensed firearm and suspicion of making crystal meth. Hes also wanted for questioning in the death of an american ex-patriot. hes not answering routine police questions and hes rambling on about secret plots to decapitate dead animals and collect his friends. John McAfee is a textbook example of drug-induced psychopathy.
of course, for those of us who doubled-up on our tinfoil this morning, belize isnt known as the most textbook of democratic states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Good people go to bed earlier.
So do we still get the $25,000 if it turns out he was the real killer?
He's been "experimenting" with these so-called "bath salts" and God knows what else...
Itâ(TM)s no wonder heâ(TM)s paranoid and possibly delusional. Thereâ(TM)s a big difference between weed and these laboratory chemicals, and things like âoebath saltsâ and âoespiceâ.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
His blog is www.whoismcafee.com and it's just bizarre. Here's a sample:
For a guy that thinks he's going to be falsely arrested by the Belize's prime minister's police minions, you'd think he'd want to just get out of the country. I can't imagine that it would be all that difficult. Yet, he keeps going back to his residence where he's most likely to arrested (Belize police must be idiots if this is all true) in these ludicrous disguises that just makes this whole story seem like a farce.
Man you talk to a lot of women. You must have a good job because that gets expensive at 2.99 a minute.
You cant be insane after the fact. hehehe.
Rich people are so entertaining. Perhaps if this happened more, where rich on rich crime and lunacy to follow, it would be worth paying more taxes.
"If it doesnt fit...... you MUST acquit!"
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I think McAfee's probably right.
There's a bit of a witch-hunt going on.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Agreed. It really comes form inside. And some of the "attractive" ones start to look ugly after a while! :)
I found that somehow, ReiserFS had been installed on my PC!
I would be very surprised if he has more than a single million. His program was trash and it took up sheet-tons of CPU. It couldn't even protect from the common cold.
> It looks like you're about to run out of your meds!
> Renew your prescription now and receive two years of protection for only $99!
I agree. As far as looks go, once a woman meets a certain standard, it doesn't matter how far above your standard she is.
I think it is a delicious irony that McAfee claims he may be the victim of a false-positive identification.
all cats look the same in the dark.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Find the real killers? Cue the white Ford Bronco. She can drive.
I can mend the break of day, heal a broken heart, and provide temporary relief to nymphomaniacs.
I'm assuming that the vast majority of commenters are from the US, Canada, and western European countries where the rule of law is well understood and (mostly) enforced in a non-arbitrary manner. That's apt to color your reaction to a story such as this.
While I don't know the facts in this particular case, it is often true in many Central and South American countries (and Caribbean islands) that the rule of law can be enforced arbitrarily, and sometimes in response to the desire to acquire the wealth of an accused person. Presumption of innocence or even actual innocence does not matter in such cases; individuals have been known to disappear for years into Byzantine court systems, or found guilty without what we would consider to be sufficient evidence of guilt. I have a friend whose college roommate has been held as a political prisoner for well over a decade in a South American country; my sisters have both had to "pay tickets" to Mexican police to keep their passports from being impounded. So I don't take flight from authorities as an admission of guilt; if McAfee knows or suspects he's being railroaded, that's probably the wise choice.
For all I know, he may be guilty, but don't take his actions as an admission.
Actually I am a lab rat in an elaborate plot to take over the world.
Former anti-virus mogul... running from corrupt 3rd-world foot-soldiers through the jungle with a girl half his age?
I think Dos-Equis just found their new pitch-man. "I don't always run from corrupt Central-American governments, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis..."
Since when does any of that matter!
People (read: upper management) buy insanely expensive software that sucks every day. A product like McAfee isn't popular because customers like it on the individual level, it's popular because it's sold via buzzwords at the enterprise level.
See also: any IBM software (rapsody, clearcase, clearquest, ..) and SAP
Ironically the guys who put care and effort into their software are the ones struggling, while the folks who put most of their budget into marketting are making a fortune selling junk that barely works.
People people.... This has nothing to do with McAfee's charges. Did anyone notice that a new book will soon be up for sale? What could help more but some publicity to generate interest in an otherwise worn out subject?
Was Kaeto Kaelin living in his guest house at the time?
Has he hired Johnnie Cochran yet?
#DeleteChrome
John McAfee is the bass man!
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Yeah, but it should be obvious to anyone who travels to or decides to live in a third world country that you just don't fuck with the the management. Look, it sucks, but these people have absolute power, and very little accountability. Third world countries are often corrupt, and the last thing you want to do is paint a target on your forehead. No telling if McAfee is behind it or not, but any way you look at it... he's pissed somebody off.
Or, the other possibility is that he's a crazy old man, and all of this is in his head.
None of the outcomes here are good.
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Who knows, maybe she's a lot better looking in person?
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Anyone know where O.J. was at that time?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Yes, a kind heart and sense of humour go a long, long way. Some of the hard bitten faux-cynical beauties I've met get a lot less attractive after they open their mouths.
And let this be a lesson for ya, it's all fun and games moving with your millions to a Caribbean tax shelter, until the local [cartel,corrupt police,militias, kidnappers, etc] come for you. Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries? Was there not enough suspense in that option?
this.
Proof this is just a black propaganda smear campaign by Obama against job creators.
Poor McAfee is just all too convenient fall guy.
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Yes.
Greetings from Argentina.
John's just working on the world's greatest ARG. The bath salts are just the MacGuffin that allows him to transit the portal to the alternate universe the story takes place in.
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"If I Did It"
or OJ for short
I'm guessing that his craziness is going to start ticking off the gang leaders he claims to have recruited. Gangs know how to deal with a rabid dog.
Google for "mcafee removal tool" ?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I would be happy with a woman like that when I am 60 :-) Eyes are not that good now and will only get worse.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
The worst part about Argentina is, it could easily be changed, except the people like it that way. Kirchner stays in power because she has the support of the [majority of the] people in what she does.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I assume you are joking. McAfee is shit, but it is still a highly popular app that rakes in millions.
clap clap clap clap clap clap
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
Cause idiots think that if you pay for something it's much better than the free version.
from an old master
He and OJ can team up to fight crime.
The text as a whole may be overly dramatic, but having someone kiss you so your face cannot be seen is not an invalid or even unlikely tactic.
Also claiming a girl from the streets of Belize is street smart is not exactly unlikely.
I don't know if he's innocent or not but the sentence you chose to highlight does not mark him as delusional, just a bad writer.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
This here's a story about John McAffe and Sam
Two mismatched lovers with nothin' better to do
Than sit around the house, live off John's savings, and watch the tube
And here is what happened when they decided to cut loose
They headed down to, ooh, old Belize
That's where they ran into a great big hassle
John shot a man while robbing his castle
Sam took the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run...
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Hahaha this whole ordeal reminded me of that as well, especially since this guy is tattooed and batshit crazy.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
True but in the AV world, all the options suck.
See also: any IBM software (rapsody, clearcase, clearquest, ..) and SAP
How you can list terrible IBM software and NOT mention Lotus Notes is, frankly, shocking.
It sounded well rehearsed
Four days on the run and he was dying of thirst
The brew was in my hand and he was on my tip
His voice was hoarse, his throat was dry, he asked me for a sip
"My name is McAfee, I got a license to kill
I think you know what time it is, it's time to get ill
Now what do we have here? An outlaw and his beer?
I run this land, you understand? I made myself clear"
Yeah, she's not bad, especially not in the first photo (chronologically). And let's get real here - the man is 67. Judging from the photos that were going around (the crazy one with him in aviators with a shotgun), he's in amazing shape for his age. How many 67 year old men can get an even slightly cute 20 year old to run away with them? It's not like he's going to be buying her diamonds and taking her on fancy vacations whilst he's on the run, is it?
Do you not realize when John left the company? Probably around the time you were born. It's performance in the last 2 decades has little to do with his net worth.
Nonsense there's one option that works 100% of the time. Turn off your computer, unplug it from the wall, remove the hard drive, and smash it with a hammer and you're guaranteed 100% effective protection against computer viruses. Note, if you ever put in a new hard drive and plug the computer in/turn it on you will void your coverage.
The IRS of course! D'Oh, McAffee must really be a dopehead to not have figured it out: Imagine if every rich entrepreneur were to flee taxes by moving to some Caribbean or South American tax haven. That's the IRS's wooorst nightmare. So in order to prevent that, they have to make an example so that the others who are flirting with tax motivated expatriation fantasies are afraid and prefer to stay and pay.
I said all the options suck, not that there isn't an option that works.
Kevin Mitnick sent out a funny tweet "Here are my top 5 tips for McAfee on the run:" it's worth the read
http://www.thetechnologygeek.org
But if you do burn, it proves that you are made of wood. And if you're made of wood, it proves that you float. And if you float you weigh as much as a duck... therefore... logically...
His posts are filled with dramatic descriptions of his actions (including returning to his home in disguise to find police digging up his dead dogs and cutting off their heads) and lay bare his suspicions about Belize authorities.
"He is a very eccentric person; there is no question. He is a very complex person. In fact, in one instance in August, I had heard a rumor that he had in fact killed somebody, and I asked him about that. And he says, “That he actively encouraged the rumors about him.” And I said, “Why would you do that?” He said, “Because I wanted people to be scared of me.” He said, “Remember I am living here, in a place where I feel very threatened. Where I think people are trying to harm me, and I want them to be afraid of me, and if they think that I am capable of some brutality, then all the better” So clearly he is living a life that most people would never choose, never even dream of. And yet, I asked him, point blank, “Why don’t you leave? If you think people are trying to kill you, why don’t you leave?” He says, “I love it here! What do you mean?” That’s why I said he is complex; it is very hard to figure him out."
There are some other interviews with or stories by Josh Davis who has interviewed him for over 100 hours over 6 months.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/14/165160275/anti-virus-software-pioneer-on-the-run-in-belize
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/threatlevel_1112_mcafee/
McAfee sounds crazy and paranoid, but that doesn't mean that people aren't out to get him.
Operating a blog where a 67 year old guy talks about his 17 and 20 year old girlfriends getting dressed while proclaiming his innocence while hiding from authorities for murder is not a way to gain any measure of public sympathy or positive PR of any kind. It just makes you look like even more of a sick fuck to a nontrivial portion of those who would be inclined to read your blog.
Now for all I know you are completely innocent but I aint the one you need to win over. The only thing I know for sure is your gross and a moron.
That would be anyplace run by the Dutch, or Switzerland, Luxemborg, or any European nation that's not a British Isle or former British Isle.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Sounds like Linux
The website is promoting a graphic novel called "The Hinterland" about the artist/author's friendship with McAfee. Why would McAfee name his fugitive blog after a graphic novel? In addition, the post "Watchfulness" seems to border on the absurd, claiming that McAfee skulked around his property in disguise observing the police, who were actively searching for him at the time. He claims to have used several different disguises: "one day selling tamales and burritos that I had purchased wholesale from a real vendor, on another pretending to be a drunk German tourist with a partially bandaged face and wearing speedo swimming trunks and a distasteful, oversized Hawaiian shirt and yelling loudly at anyone who would listen – “Leck mich um ausch!”." If he actually hid from the police by wandering around his own property in a speedo yelling at people in German, then more power to him. But I don't believe it.
How many blowjobs does it take to "pay a ticket" in Mexico???
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
To build on this, we know that when McAfee went public, John held about 100 million in stock.Taxes, time, bad investments, and interesting hobbies have probably dented that number big time. However, at one time, he was worth 100m.
Seriously;
If you got together all the Rich Bastards that want to flee the American Tax System (Mitt Romney, I'm looking at you), want to live their libertarian lifestyle, why the heck don't they pool their resources and simply BUY a freakin' country?
Seriously, the number of billionaires right now building gated fortesses with private security in places like Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil and the good old USA amounts to a number of dollars great enough to buy a nice secluded country and simply take over the government.
Then they can impose whatever "law" they like, and run the place the way Shieks do in places like UAE and Dubai.
And when you consider that, as a foreign country, they can continue to earn profits by applying for aid from the USA to feed their poor, and the stupid Middle Class will continue to sudsidize their lifestyles.
They'd be safe, their money would continue to grow, and the police would answer to them. Are these rich people just that stupid that they can't figure this out?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
also.. if she's attracted to you, it doesn't matter a whole lot what you say. as long as it's not disgusting/repulsive/etc.
"So, umm... wanna come home and check out my tub? I've got a lot of bathing salts."
Coffee-driven development.
In other words... you know you won't be able to, but you can damn well make up some crude accusative story just to make your lame self feel better about it. Gotcha.
Money without personality doesn't go very far. Personality goes a long way, even dirt poor. Money AND personality... well... women dream about that.
And why wouldn't they? Just like men with neither money nor personality like to dream about how every dude with more personality and/or money than them must have some defect. Sometimes, just sometimes - that defect is you.
Yesterday they posted on CNN that he wasn't the prime suspect and that they had 3 others detained. Also he thinks the cops are going to kill him, http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/18/world/americas/belize-mcafee-killing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
They raided his home in the belief he was making Meth while he lied to them and told them he was doing pharmaceutical research.
The only thing wrong with their assessment was that it was worse than meth. He got all butthurt and mad and tried to paint the Belize authorities as bumbling idiots and corrupt when they were actually right all along - that McAfee is a fucking tweeker and drug manufacturer, which he admitted himself on a drug forum.
He is a crazy old man who was making Substance D in his own basement and is now as batshit from it as Bob Arctor.
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BMO
I like Linux, but have to use Windows being a gamer and what not.
yeah, class warfare.
And you berate the losing side for starting to notice and complain after 40 years.
Stay classy, job creator.
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What game is it that you can't get running via Wine? Personally, when I got Skyrim running on Xubuntu, I quit windows...
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That might be a good reason to live in a decent country instead of fleeing to some hell hole to cook drugs and nail jailbait.
I don't want to pre-judge this. But it is hard not to think of Hans Reiser.
You might wonder why someone with so much money would live so far from town down such a difficult road. Rounding a sandy curve it quickly became obvious: the staggering beauty of the Belize Barrier Reef coast.
McAfee's view is worth a fortune. An endless stretch of blue sky overhangs an ocean of pastel greens and blues framed by coconut palms. Next to a long wooden dock with chairs at its end sits a fast-looking boat with twin outboards.
The day before, I met "Tiffany" here. She claimed to be one of McAfee's girlfriends, one of seven. They all live together, sharing McAfee's houses and fantasies. He's 67. Tiffany says she's 23 and they have been lovers for three years. The girl beside her gives no name and only says she's 19.
Tiffany says she's not seen or heard from McAfee in nearly a week -- not since the neighbor, Greg Faull, was discovered dead and McAfee went into hiding.
Now a day later the 23-year-old had vanished too.
Half a dozen dogs lie sorry-looking or listless in the yard -- thin, hungry and thirsty. They're lucky to be alive.
Dogs just might be the key to this mystery.
Officials say their barking and aggressive behavior was a frequent source of friction between McAfee and Faull, a 52-year-old contractor who retired to Belize from Florida and lived next door.
On November 9, McAfee told police someone poisoned four of his dogs. Tiffany said to put them out of their misery he shot each one in the head and buried them.
Then two days later someone shot Faull in the head in his own living room. A 9mm shell was found on the second step on the first floor, and Faull was found dead on the second floor.
And McAfee had vanished.
This almost daily "catch me if you can" game is wearing thin on investigators. The longer it all goes on, the more suspicious police become.
So five days ago they dug up his dogs. I found the partially exposed graves next to a trash pit in the back behind his priceless ocean view. The flies led me there. I asked a caretaker if he was here when the police came for them. "Yes" he said, then added another tick up the strange-o-meter by revealing, "They cut off their heads."
Since only the heads had bullets, the investigators put the rest of the remains back in the holes, then hurriedly and poorly recovered them.
A source close to the investigation said authorities probably want to see if the slugs in the dogs match the one in Faull.
A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
Anyone else reminded of Phil Katz?
although the Belize police do want to question him.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
So the guy wasn't on drugs when he ATE that other guy's face off?
well, that's a relief.
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According to my google-fu, both Fallout 2 and Neverwinter Nights run pretty well...
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Yeah, but it should be obvious to anyone who travels to or decides to live in a third world country that you just don't fuck with the the management. Look, it sucks, but these people have absolute power, and very little accountability. Third world countries are often corrupt, and the last thing you want to do is paint a target on your forehead. No telling if McAfee is behind it or not, but any way you look at it... he's pissed somebody off. Or, the other possibility is that he's a crazy old man, and all of this is in his head. None of the outcomes here are good.
Well, if you read his blog, he mentions living with a 17 year old Amy and now a 20 year old Sam he's known for "1 and a half years"? Obvious this 67 year old loves teenage girls, which would probably upset a few fathers, and these are only the girls he's willing to admit to....
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Yeah, but it should be obvious to anyone who travels to or decides to live in a third world country that you just don't fuck with the the management. Look, it sucks, but these people have absolute power, and very little accountability. Third world countries are often corrupt, and the last thing you want to do is paint a target on your forehead. No telling if McAfee is behind it or not, but any way you look at it... he's pissed somebody off. Or, the other possibility is that he's a crazy old man, and all of this is in his head. None of the outcomes here are good.
Well, if you read his blog, he mentions living with a 17 year old Amy and now a 20 year old Sam he's known for "1 and a half years"? Obvious this 67 year old loves teenage girls, which would probably upset a few fathers, and these are only the girls he's willing to admit to....
Also I find it highly suspicious their ages are being mentioned at all. What exactly does his age or the ages of girls he's sleeping with have to do with him being accused of murder and running from the law? I mean, there's no mention of the vehicle he escaped in or the clothes he's wearing or anything, but the ages of the girls is somehow revelant? Unless, of course, there's another side of the story, where he's being accused of sleeping with young children, in which case it makes sense why he would announce upfront that one girl was 17 and the other was 20.
Or maybe I've just been watching too much CSI
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
And here I thought she was only 7! It's so easy to trick old people.
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
Jetra, we're your friends here, and we really care about you. Using Windows doesn't just hurt you, it's hurting others too!
Nah, in all seriousness, every operating system has it's strengths and weaknesses. I'd never recommend that a gamer get a mac, and if an artist talks about using Linux, I would be looking outside for the flying pigs.
I still have a Windows box for my wife to use, mainly because of Netflix.
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Belize isn't a third world country, but apart from that, nice rant. It's a former British colony with a somewhat more developed and stable economy than many surrounding countries, and most people wouldn't count *those* as 'third world'.
It seems like some people in this thread have a really weird image of Belize.
It's a former British colony with a decent economy, functioning parliamentary democracy and British style independent judiciary. It is not a 'third-world hellhole' into whose prisons one disappears and never returns. It has issues with drug-related gang violence and corruption, but then so do other developed countries with independent judiciaries, like for instance _Britain_. And the U.S.
It's not like it takes long to look it up, sheesh. Half the stuff about how sketchy Belize is came from McAfee in the first damn place.
She had the support, last year, when she won the elections. We don't know now, as she manipulates the statistics.
Hello,
I am a former employee of Dr. John McAfee here, and would like to see if I can clear up some of the misperceptions about him that have arisen in this thread.
John took a leave of absence from McAfee Associates in 1993 for health reasons, which became permanent in 1994, and he divested himself of interest in the company as quickly as he could (i.e., subject to stock lockouts and the like). At the time he left, McAfee Associates had DOS, Novell, OS/2 and Windows 3.1 products. He certainly had nothing to do with the design or development of McAfee Associates' products after that. As a matter of fact, if it just says "McAfee" on it (sans "Associates"), it's pretty much a given that he was not involved with it.
I first met John when I was in high school, and started working for him after I graduated. One of the first things he did after employing me was read me the riot act regarding drugs and alcohol. At the time, he had been sober for just under a decade (eight or nine years, I think), but prior to that told me about how he had abused all sorts of substances, and as a result he had never done a single thing in his life that was worthwhile before quitting. I took John's advice to heart and have avoided these all my life.
While John was running McAfee Associates, we had a strict no alcohol/no drugs policy, and there was no drinking allowed at the company, at company events or even just going out for a meal. Showing up drunk, stoned or otherwise impaired would be a great way to get yourself fired.
In Belize, John started up several business ventures, one of which was looking at bacterial quorum sensing as an antibiotic. That fell through, and he changed focus to topical antiseptic compounds. He had reporters coming through all the time, as well as people, I believe, from the national hospital and university, so it should have been readily apparent to those who were knowledgeable in such matters that he was doing bio-pharmaceutical prospecting and not running a meth lab.
That said, it is particularly understandable how law enforcement would feel about a rich expat coming to their company and setting up a research lab. It probably looked like a cleaner, better-equipped version of the drug labs they were used to raiding. If the police had talked to the health officials, they could probably have arranged for regular inspections.
John has had continuous run-in's with politicians in Belize over the years, which you can read about over in his blog or elsewhere in the news. Without getting into the details of how Belize operates, it is apparent he believes that country's politicians are corrupt and is fearful for his life as a consequence. Just looking at the responses from the police and politicians there, it seems they are doing little to allay his fears. Calling him names is not going to help, nor is not addressing his claims of corruption or claims that they are holding his former employees hostage.
A lot of the conversations I have seen revolve around calling John McAfee crazy, paranoid, bonkers and so forth. But consider this: Each time he says something outlandish about where he his hiding, how he is monitoring things, et cetera, he causes law enforcement to expend efforts to find him. In a sense, it is kind of a war of attrition against them. In that context, this is not crazy at all, but rather very sensible and practical behavior in light of current circumstances.
Anyhow, I hope that puts things into context about the man behind the name.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Dexter is a good dog.
True, and with the recent protests it's hard to say.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the opinions of the people have changed, though. So while they may get rid of her, they will replace her with someone the same.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Money without personality doesn't go very far.
If you're just looking for a decent looking girl to have sex with you, it goes plenty far. Prostitutes don't care about your personality. And if you're in a poor country like Belize that caters to tourism, it goes even farther.
Also I find it highly suspicious their ages are being mentioned at all. What exactly does his age or the ages of girls he's sleeping with have to do with him being accused of murder and running from the law?
Because the reporters and their readership find that bit of sensationalism interesting. He was also never formally accused of murder, but is wanted for questioning -- at least that's the official story.
McAfee is a documented, serial liar. You can't believe a damn thing he says.
People (read: upper management) buy insanely expensive software that sucks every day. A product like McAfee isn't popular because customers like it on the individual level, it's popular because it's sold via buzzwords at the enterprise level.
It's kind of unfair to lump in Clearcase with the other enterprise software that is marketed to management. Clearcase is expensive but it is very good. At one place I worked that you could solve 90% of bugs by opening up the history in the version tree tool and doing a binary search to find the breaking check in. Which was handy - it was VxWorks system based on embedded C and they'd hired a bunch of idiots to 'work' on it. So the net result was that it would frequently break in some very subtle ways.
Management would rather you suffered with svn or something.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1104961/how-can-i-view-the-version-tree-for-a-file-in-svn-which-shows-the-merges-from-br
My issue is I have some changes on a branch which I have merged back to trunk using TortoiseSVN "Reintegrate a branch" feature. Now when I look at the version tree I don't see any edge being rendered from the tip of the branch to the tip of the trunk, which I would expect to see. In Clearcase you would see merge arrows indicating the direction of the merge between branches of a file/folder.
For svn, a branch is just another directory, with the little difference that it knows some history: It knows where it was copied from. When you merge a branch into the trunk, Subversion will take all changes that where made to the branch since it was created (i.e. copied) and apply all those changes to the trunk. It will remember which changes have already been merged (so it's not totally true that Subversion doesn't store anything about the merges), hence knows not to apply them again.
So, merging in Subversion doesn't mean much more than applying some changes here that were made somewhere else. The idea of the branch graph therefore doesn't work well with Subversion (and the way of handling branches is probably the most often uttered criticism of Subversion).
Moving from Clearcase at one client to SVN at another was a pretty bleak experience to be honest.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
First there was the world. Then there was the new world which included north and south America. Then Europeans started trying to classify countries in Africa and Asia and came up with the term "third world". As a former British colony Belize is definitely New World.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The term originated during the Cold War.
1st world = "free world" (Western industrial democracies)
2nd world = Soviet bloc
3rd world = nonaligned nations
Of course, there's no more Soviet bloc, but the term "third world" remains with us.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Please refresh my memory--What has all this to do exactly with McAfee, Belize, or that bloke who spontaneously grew a third eye socket...?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
If you look at my comment I've quoted the bits of comment I was replying to. So when it comes to thread derailing it wasn't me who drew first blood.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
If I was a multimillionaire (as he almost certainly is), and my liberty was at such a severe risk, I wouldn't be offering piddling amounts like this to get to the bottom of the problem. Sure, in Belize it's probably the equivalent of 10 years' pay for the average worker, but is that all he thinks his credibility and freedom are worth ?
Yeah, well, I happen to like SVN...
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
You are aptly named.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
There are plenty of games that work in Wine, many games (especially older ones) that do not, and a whole host of games that "work," (World of Warcraft, Civilization 5) that work, just not all that well.
So? What's your point? On what basis are you implying this is the case here? Other than extrapolating from yourself maybe?
What's your point?
My point was pretty obvious. It was a direct contradiction to your statement.
On what basis are you implying this is the case here?
That was pretty obvious too. A rich old dude with money in Belize is sleeping with a bunch of young girls who are obviously in it for the money. Even McAfee has no delusions about this.
If you think sleeping with a bunch of girls is "going far", then yes, in whatever world where that makes sense you contradicted my statement. Everywhere else, not so much ^^
So the "going far" is supposed to be because she fled with him? He was her sugar daddy. What did she have to go back to?