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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
We should probably start a new website devoted specifically to tech-famous people shoving drugs up their rears. Assdot?
Which one is the 'anykey'?
They have no reason to hold him other than being suspected for a crime in the US. If they captured him, they'd let the world know how helpful they were being.
Didn't the crime in question occur in Belize?
I am not a crackpot.
... he was using a Linux laptop with ReiserFS the time of the murder.
Can we stop with the ReiserFS jokes already? The meme has been beaten to death.
There's no place like
Can we stop with the ReiserFS jokes already? The meme has been beaten to death.
Then slashdot removed the car seats.
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.
"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 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.
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!
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
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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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;
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.
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.'"
Here's a handy McAfee Timeline I made.