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McAfee May Have Been Captured
netbuzz writes with a quick update about John McAfee on the run. From the article: "A blog being maintained for the past three weeks by antivirus pioneer John McAfee and others is claiming to have received "an unconfirmed report" that McAfee has been captured near the border of Belize and Mexico. However, authorities in Belize say that report is not true and that the whereabouts of McAfee, wanted for questioning as a 'person of interest' after the Nov. 11 murder of his neighbor, remain unknown."
They thought they had him, but turns out it was a false positive.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
I found the problem: They haven't updated their viru--er, law enforcement definition files. That's why the average user should always have auto-update enabled. In other news... McAfee is clearly suffering from some kind of mental disorder beyond simply having homocidal issues, and it's probably due to drugs, maybe even bath salts. He's showing clear evidence of paranoid delusions and his blog posts seem increasingly detached from reality. The only reason he's been able to hold out this long is because he has a lot of money -- way more than the government trying to catch him. Money covers up a lot of intellectual deficits, but he can't stay ahead of them forever because he's a wounded animal; He doesn't have a full deck of cards anymore.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
He is still in hiding though because he is afraid (rightly so) of being extradited or killed.
....30 day trial.
just update the virus files to kill prison control.sys
He hasn't been captured, he's been quarantined.
I don't mean the article, I mean all the "jokes" in the replies.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Um, because it's about a pretty important person in technology? It makes more sense to post about something major like this than whether Linus Torvalds likes GNOME or KDE.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Hebhas been quarantined
Did they put him in quarantine? Or, they just denied him access to running?
The man hasn't been 'pretty important' or even relevant to technology in over a decade and even then the only relevance he had was in creating the world's worst AV software.
Apparently he had a virus so he was running slow.
It's KDE, by the way. But he's wrong, they both suck.
When Linus Torvaldes is arrested for shoving drugs up his asshole, I want slashdot to report it.
I guess it depends when you were reading it. In 2006 the Hans Reiser murder case started, which also got a lot of attention.
It's KDE, by the way. But he's wrong, they both suck.
Yeah, yeah, because HipsterDE is the bestest desktop environment in the whole wide world but we probably haven't heard of it, we know, we know...
Even if they had him, I kinda doubt they'd admit to it. He could very likely be sitting in a very tiny, very dark little cell for all anyone knows.
They should have used 64 bits. Then McAfee wouldn't run.
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
The only reason he's been able to hold out this long is because he has a lot of money -- way more than the government trying to catch him. http://phanmemtiger.com/
... he was using a Linux laptop with ReiserFS the time of the murder.
*wah* *wah* *wah*
Slashdot has always been this, your 4-digit UID must imply bad memory due to old age.
Why is Slashdot carrying a piece about an alleged murder case?
Because the alleged murderer has held a system most of the people here have either owned or had to service hostage, and if there's one thing a geek dislikes more than broken hardware, it's stupidly-designed software. *grabs popcorn* I'm gonna enjoy watching this guy roast.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
I think WinFixer has the market cornered on worst anti-virus software
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
HipsterDE (today) is XFCE. Super, super retro. Works a lot like windows 95 but without all the "modern" stuff like being able to sort icons. At least until the corporations just ruin it by adding basic features.
Labeling what McAfee did as "antivirus pioneer" does a disservice to both terms and makes anyone who reads it stupiderer...
As far as I can tell (I wasn't a crypto-analyst or infosec tech in the 80s) McAfee was good at getting government contracts and paying people to write software for him.
That is **not** pioneering anything...that's **above average** level **business management**....really nothing he did professionally was extraordinary or ideologically noteworthy whatsoever. He was a standard bubble-era businessman.
We do ourselves a serious harm by not making distinctions between who does the work and who manages the company.
Thank you Dave Raggett
After this threat has been identified, do we quarantine him? Or do we delete forever?
The rumors of my capture have been greatly exaggerated....
It's an excuse to take a very serious situation and to make security/software/virus puns about it.
The Slashdot I used to visit was always like this.
*grabs popcorn* I'm gonna enjoy watching this guy roast.
My popcorn is ready.
I too enjoy watching this guy roast. But still, this "news" has nothing to do with technology nor anything that interests the true geek community - which Slashdot serves.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
like being able to sort icons
5-star trolling skills! I almost thought that you were actually that dumb
We should probably start a new website devoted specifically to tech-famous people shoving drugs up their rears. Assdot?
Which one is the 'anykey'?
How long ago was that? Do you remember the Hans Reiser case? http://slashdot.org/story/06/10/11/0142216/hans-reiser-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder That was six years ago. So Slashdot was like this then too. Some guy, vaguely connected to tech accused of murder. Same thing, right?
the only relevance he had was in creating the world's worst AV software.
On the contrary; back then it was the world's best.
But remember, that was on MS-DOS.
By the time Microsoft had created another OS, John McAfee wasn't even working at the company named after him anymore.
Are you kidding? Twm is the epitome of sleek modern design and always will be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5GmwSgCfn38
No troll, bro. It's so old school it totes can't even sort icons. Keeping the 'bloat' out, I guess.
i gotta believe the dude had some bad karma wracked up. Like, we're talking worse than my slashdot karma.
Slashdot covered the whole torrid Hans Reiser affair too. I think it's important.
You won't get any sensible discussion here.
Around 2007, Microsoft realised tech sites like Slashdot had a significant involvement in the very public rejection of Vista as a replacement for XP. They hired several reputation management companies, including Waggener Edstrom and Burson Marsteller to manage their online presence before the W7 release.
One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit. They swamped the discussions, including those unrelated to their OS with scripted comments based on a few themes - "Have you tried it yet?" "Much faster than XP" etc etc. There was no opportunity to discuss Linux/FOSS or any other non-proprietary effort without wading through dozens of highly moderated pro-Win 7 postings. Pretty much every first post was a Microsoft-favorable pamphlet.
The result was that almost anyone with a real interest in tech abandoned the site. There are still a few of the old die-hards here, but it's mostly marketers and sock-puppets now.
The man hasn't been 'pretty important' or even relevant to technology in over a decade
That may be the case be he is still widely known and "affected" many lives through his resource-hogging software.
Bill Gates fits almost the same profile, if it were him you would argue that story did not belong here?
I would argue if nothing else the story sort of belongs because he;s basically a geek and geeks like hearing about other geeks living at the edges of existence.
Personally despite being deeply angered by his software over the years, I'm still rooting for McAfee.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
... They have to completely uninstall their current justice system, first.
The only reason it's here is everyone knows the name "McAfee" from the antivirus software. The man McAfee long ago dissolved any ties with tech and moved abroad to evade taxes and be an asshole who owns lots of dogs and lets them bark at all hours of the day. He ran into an equally assholish neighbor who, after taking enough, poisoned his dogs. McAfee responded with murder. Slashdot editor thinks it's somehow related to technology so posts it here.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It makes more sense to post about something major like this than whether Linus Torvalds likes GNOME or KDE.
eh, yes. But it's always News to learn what words Linus Torvalds uses to describe the project he doesn't like.
Stop being so cranky. Asimov has been dead for quite some time now - but I still read everything that I find published about him. Tolkein has been dead even longer, but I still follow what is happening with his works. We have presidents who have been dead for a couple of centuries, and the government still observes their birthdays. What about Columbus? That old relic has been dead for how long? We STILL have a Columbus Day!
I think you're just jealous, because there is no Taco Cowboy day.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Right click on empty desktop spot->Arrange Icons
That's pretty stupid. Most females hide their gender, because they get tired of alternating responses, "Shut up, Bitch!" and "Want to fuck?" Things have gotten better in recent years, but not a whole lot better. So, no they don't get automagical max mods just for posting.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Prior to this, McAfee was getting harassed by the local police for not paying bribe money and got his house raided a few times.
I wouldnt put it past the local police to have killed his neighbor.
"Why is Slashdot carrying a piece about an alleged murder case?"
We hope well never have to deselect his crap when we are installing something it's bundled with.
Hello,
I suppose it is simpler to believe in some kind of wild conspiracy theory than it is to believe that Microsoft listened to its customers and fixed things.
And if your claim were true and Microsoft was so successful doing this, why hasn't Windows 8 taken off?
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Dexter is a good dog.
I too enjoy watching this guy roast. But still, this "news" has nothing to do with technology nor anything that interests the true geek community - which Slashdot serves.
Since Malda sold out and /. now relentlessly pursues revenue and has been rotating increasingly lame editorial staff in, I don't think the geek community is what it serves anymore. I'm thinking more The Krakken or some other lovecraftian horror beast, dwelling away beneath its servers, occasionally eating a true geek to absorb its power before vomiting up another monetization scheme.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
I think it is really because his "I'm running off to another country because of taxes!" shit appeals to many of the Rand-types that hang around on Slashdot.
[citation needed]
Listen to what is being said.....
There are reports that McAfee has been captured by police.
The police deny they have captured him.
So, if the police in Belize dispatched McAfee, (ala his predictions), they could always claim they never had him in their custody.
It all fits! He was right all along.
Seriously, it's true. Even better to be an actual girl. Poseurs like "Raven" Alder can cut and paste text from a cookie recipe and still get automagically upmodded to +5 every time.
As a female person I cannot help but feel that you have some petty, childish axe to grind. Did you steal it from Toys 'R' Us? I mean, I don't see my own comments automatically getting upvotes. Most of the time my comments don't get voted either way, and atleast I view that as a good thing; when you don't automatically get upvoted to +5 every time you post something you can actually consider your comment score as somewhat proper feedback.
Why would I want to sort my xterm-Icon?
Trolling is a art!
McAfee, and his excuses for not cooperating to me seem really lame.. He has a high profile persona because of who he is, so crying foul over possibly getting shot while arrested, or being falsely accused is a little to much for me to believe. Even in a country that appears to be known for corrupt police.
Simply due to media involvement...........
Listening to the BBC on NPR they had an interview from some source were McAfee was whining how they arrested just about anyone around his home, the neighbor, his own maid, ect.. All in an attempt to get to to turn himself in. The media or press would be covering the story from start to finish since he is not a "normal" or Native citizen, so for him to act the way is really suspect.
Having said that I do see they way other countries recklessly convict people with no evidence, regardless of them being native or American and there is really nothing (or so the US claims) the US government can do to help those out who really are innocent.
Did mommy drop a copy of Atlas Shrugged on your head?
One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit.
That's pretty much total bullishit. There may have been one or two at some point, but at NO point were there "hundreds" of sock-puppets posting pro anything about Microsoft years ago on Slashdot. I was one of the voices yammering against Microsoft at that point, I would have remembered more than a handful of challenges.
Currently Slashdot does not warrant paying a dime for a puppet of any fabric or substance.
When you simply factor in that some developers do in fact like to program for the Microsoft platform, and that they would also like other technical topics that Slashdot provides, it is not hard to imagine that the few pro-MS posters we see showing up off and on are simply technical people proficient in the Microsoft platform and correcting misinformation.
I have no idea what was going on with Reddit as I have no desire to read anything with a UI like that, but I would find it quite a bit easier to think there were simply a lot of people that enjoyed trolling Reddit than there was a vast army of sock-puppets.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
HipsterDE (today) is XFCE. Super, super retro. Works a lot like windows 95 but without all the "modern" stuff like being able to sort icons. At least until the corporations just ruin it by adding basic features.
I think a basic, bug-free and fast desktop is exactly what Linux needs. A "best thing since sliced ham" kind of thing.
Reiser was very relevant to Linux at the time. ReiserFS was one of most popular Linux filesystems and was nearing a major much-anticipated released when all that crap went down.
McAffe is not relevant other than having been involved in creating second-rate AV software a couple decades ago. That would be equivalent to us caring about Reiser 15 years from now - long after he ceased being relevant.
Slashdot is largely powered by articles submitted by readers.
It's newsworthy because slashdot groupthink paranoia means that if anyone even remotely related to technology is charged with any crime they must be innocent and part of some vast conspiracy(see any of the slashdot articles about Hans Reiser). This feeds into a combination of the libertarian paranoia that government is only doing evil things and the "bullied in high school" persecution complex of nerds.
In addition to that we have the fact that he's been commercially successful selling a questionable product so we can all feel superior to him now that he's being chased down. Those two options will pretty much cover most of slashdot.
Slashdot is largely powered by articles submitted by readers.
That's just the input. What happens between the input and the output is a whole 'nother matter...
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
For the same reason as Slashdot following the story of Hans Reiser.
signature is pants
Actually, /. has always been like this. I've been a reader here since 2000, and suspect you're suffering from Gool Ol' Days Syndrome.
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And the Belize police are denying it cause they want to disappear him just like he said?
Hans Reiser was big news here too. Are you saying that news about the legal troubles involving people famous in technology shouldn't be covered here, or are you saying Hans Reiser was okay by McAfee is not?
I think a basic, bug-free and fast desktop is exactly what Linux needs. A "best thing since sliced ham" kind of thing.
Open source ham.
You raise the pig yourself and your kids give it a name. You get very disturbed by the screams it makes when you kill it, and come back covered in blood. Afterwards you decide to become a vegetarian. Occasionally you buy a ham sandwich that doesn't scream or cover you in blood from the supermarket but don't enjoy it as much as you used to.
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;
Second rate to you maybe, but not to people who were old enough to have used it early on. I didn't care at all about ReiserFS. Second Extended for life.
Why is Slashdot carrying a piece about an alleged murder case?
It has nothing to do with technology and the murder weapon ain't high tech either.
Can't Slashdot make up its mind what it wants to be?
Just because it's McAfee it must be "newsworthy" for Slashdot?
I dunno.
The Slashdot I used to visit wasn't like this.
"Lo' how the mighty can fall!" McAffee is/was an important tech person, and he seems to be going batshit. That's popcorn-worthy.
Most females hide their gender, because they get tired of alternating responses, "Shut up, Bitch!" and "Want to fuck?"
Unfortunately its not an option for your mom. Rumours are she will kick yoyu out of the basement if you don't stop it
So he left the US because he didn't want to pay taxes, and now finds that instead he has to bribe politicians. Life is so hard for the rich.
I think it is really because his "I'm running off to another country because of taxes!" shit appeals to many of the Rand-types that hang around on Slashdot.
Sooo, you voluntarily pay more taxes than you're obligated to just to help pay down the US government's debt?
Yeah, didn't think so.
I'll guess that you like to rant about the excesses of the TSA and rail about "warrantless wiretapping" without ever considering how our government manages to obtain the resources it takes to abuse power that way, too.
Well actually I noticed the shilling and stopped visiting for a while because it was depressing me that apparently nobody else was noticing it. I see a lot of other people complaining about it now though, and the number of shill posts has gone down somewhat. You can usually tell from the words that people use whether they're marketing drones.
I didn't realise it was related to Windows 7. Windows 7 is better than Vista from my experience supporting both of them in the workplace. I have no clue about Windows 8, and have no urge to even try it. I didn't even use 7 for a while. I prefer to let others be the public beta testers to find out if it's worth upgrading.
which is totally what she said
I bet McAfee Inc. think his exploits are pretty important. That's what you get for naming your software after an individual.
It is probably too much to hope that McAfee Internet Security will die, but I fully expect a name change in the near future.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
So you see, your posts don't get modded up because you aren't a girl. Now girlintraining, she recognises balance and won't let her intellect stop her from being (or at least trying at this stage :) ) a girl and developing into a woman.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
No. Who the hell are you to say that when you're not even his peer? Nobody, and nothing. Zero. You're an armchair quarterback at best.
The amount of speculation happening on Slashdot here is palpable. I guess all it takes to make headlines now days is for someone to post unverified information, and then have someone else blog about said information.
Crimey
All jokes aside, if McAfee is right and Belize authorities want him dead, this is exactly how they'd make him disappear. Capture him, kill him, dump his body, and then claim he was never in custody.
Genocide Man -- Life is funny. Death is funnier. Mass murder can be hilarious.
Admin posts a story, someone whines that it's not really "news for nerds". Same as it ever was.
I hope you didn't pay much for the 4-digit account.
0 1 - just my two bits
They've hired Norton to find him...............
US citizens living abroad still must pay US income tax. So I don't think it's that.
Further: If you're a rich American and left (and renounced US citizenship) to avoid paying taxes, you'd leave for Switzerland or somewhere like that, not corrupt and poor Belize. Any money he makes now is almost assuredly capital gains, which is taxed at one tenth or one twentieth of the US rate in Switzerland (depending on long-term vs short-term, tax bracket, etc.).
Well actually I noticed the shilling and stopped visiting for a while because it was depressing me that apparently nobody else was noticing it.
All of the regular "old guard" noticed it. You're not the only one. We even got to watch them evolve from creating accounts for the purpose and making shillposts immediately to creating accounts ahead of time and leaving one or two "metoo" comments paraphrasing someone else's comment as a reply to actually leaving one or two suck comments in other stories before abandoning the account.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Slashdot editor thinks it's somehow related to technology so posts it here.
This is technology news in the same way that it's entertainment news when a celebrity is in the hospital.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
This whole thing is bizarre. The cops say he's not a suspect but want to question him as a possible witness, McAffee says he already talked to them, as well as a lot of other weird statements that can only be attributed to drug-induced psychosis.
What do McAffee and Rush Limbaugh have in common? Drugs (although opposite ones) and they're both batshit insane.
Free Martian Whores!
Why would I want to sort my xterm-Icon?
Oh, so your window manager blows up on a regular basis too, huh? You can always tell a Linux user with a faulty DE by the xterm icon. I suggest xkill too, it's handy when you have issues with focus when your DE dies.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Erratic behavior is not out of the norm for highly intelligent "tech" types. Perhaps it is the psychopathic tendency that makes CEO's so effective.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/06/14/why-some-psychopaths-make-great-ceos/
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1222162--psychopathy-and-the-ceo-top-executives-have-four-times-the-incidence-of-psychopathy-as-the-rest-of-us
You raise the pig yourself and your kids give it a name. You get very disturbed by the screams it makes when you kill it, and come back covered in blood. Afterwards you decide to become a vegetarian.
The species of pigs one eats do NOT make good pets, and you're not going to name them or treat them as pets. I had a friend who was raising a few hogs before it got too expensive, and he said the best pork he ever ate was from the one that bit him.
Pigs are nasty, dangerous creatures that are good for one thing -- food. I see you've never been on a farm.
Free Martian Whores!
What happens between the input and the output is a whole 'nother matter...
There's the firehose.
Free Martian Whores!
Here's a handy McAfee Timeline I made.
They would probably argue that their success in fighting off the illuminati is the reason the illuminati aren't in control anymore.
Why hasn't Windows 8 taken off? I'm not sure what "taken off means" in this context. It's selling faster than Windows 7 which sold faster than Vista which sold faster than XP etc... So maybe the illuminati are still pulling the strings. ;)
Because the alleged murderer has held a system most of the people here have either owned or had to service hostage
Get off my lawn. John McAfee's involvement in AV software ended before Windows 95 was released.
Right. XFCE doesn't have that.
Man, I must be using my MacBook wrong, too. About a third of my active desktop real estate is perpetually occupied by a terminal window, and I've even got an icon for it in two places. It's almost like some people use Unix-based operating systems for, well, things that Unix-based operating systems are historically used for. Crazy.
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Man, I must be using my MacBook wrong, too. About a third of my active desktop real estate is perpetually occupied by a terminal window
Apparently you cannot tell the difference between the words icon and window. Please go away until you can do so.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
To quote my original post:
and I've even got an icon for it in two places
Apparently you cannot read more than 25 words in sequence before losing track of what you're doing. Please go away until your focus improves.
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To quote my original post:
and I've even got an icon for it in two places
Congratulations, you missed the point twice. Who cares if you have a terminal window perpetually open? That is completely orthogonal to whether you have a terminal icon on your desktop. I hope you understand that you don't need the icon on your desktop for the window to appear above your desktop, but that would be typical of a mac user.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"