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John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from ABC News: "Software millionaire John McAfee has been taken to a Guatemala City hospital via ambulance after suffering a possible heart attack at the detention center where he is being held. McAfee, 67 — who may soon be deported back to Belize, where authorities want to question him about the shooting death of his neighbor — was reportedly prostrate on the floor of his cell and unresponsive. He was wheeled into the hospital on a gurney, but when nurses began removing his suit, he became responsive and said, 'Please, not in front of the press.' Earlier today, McAfee had complained of chest pains."
...a drama queen
That is the oldest jail cell trick in the book. I'm glad it still works.
Joseph Elwell.
He was unresponsive until he might get embarrased in public and then becomes responsive.
Does this make anyone else think he was faking it, or am I just too jaded?
(PS want a LOL? Captcha: Captures)
Wonder if he had to go cold turkey on some addiction
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
"Please, not in front of the press... until I post it on my blog."
Is he suffering from withdraw from all those drugs he does?
why is everyone obsessed with this guy?
There once was a man from Belize
Who suffered from heart disease
When offered revivial
He'd cry for survival
"Not in front of the press, please!"
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
2/10. Good intentional misspelling of Linus's name, but the rest of it just didn't feel natural. Troll harder.
I'm guessing it was a virus.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I imagine he's got quite a bit to come down from too.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Next headline: "John JcAfee Escapes from Guatemala Hospital".
4. We are infact collectively having the pschotc episode.
But 1 and 3 could be true, or 2 and 3. So, "one or more" can be fulfilled with those subsets.
Logic fail. 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive so they can't both be true.
True, but you didn't read closely.
It seems clear that 1 or more of 3 possibilities are the truth.
Hence not all three possibilities have to be true. Just one or two will do.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
So rephrase #2 and add #0:
It seems clear that 1 or more of 4 possibilities are the truth.
0. He is innocent.
1. He killed his neighbor, possibly in retaliation for his dogs being poisoned.
2. He is being persecuted by forces within the Belize government and police department.
3. He is having or has had a psychotic episode.
And the worms ate into his brain.
par for course for mcafree at times it just crashes and then you need to reboot the full system to get back to work.
I understand this guy founded a software company, but he's not exactly been a public figure until now. What's with all the fascination over this investigation?
Logic fail. 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive so they can't both be true.
They could both be partially true. Maybe he killed his neighbor and is being persecuted by froces within the Belize government and police department. :)
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Good catch.
For it to make sense he should have said "I wonder which of the others is also true."
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
USA Today said he was accompanied by his 20 year old girlfriend to the hospital. Perhaps the 2 minor heart attacks were after a conjugal visit?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/12/05/guatemalan-police-arrest-mcafee/1749997/
Better known as 318230.
And sometimes it refuses to work in front of certain people.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Has Slashdot turned into a tabloid? Hourly updates on McAfee seem superfluous.
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
I read at -1 because I happen to be a troll aficionado, for your information. Occasionally there are some really great ones, OP wasn't one of them.
More Twoson than Cupertino
Although most non-tech people would be like who the hell is this guy.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
If trolls are trying to entrain and boost other people's egos, in particular the people they are baiting, then more power to them, as that is practically a public service. It is the ones trying to entertain themselves at the expense of other people's time and emotional state that get annoying and waste space.
You gotta admit, this is possibly the most exciting tech-related drama of all time. Hans Reiser's trial pales in comparison.
Let's see, you've got:
* eccentric millionaire going off the grid to do obscure 'antibiotics' research in the jungles of Belize flanked by various hot young babes
* a compound with military-grade security
* allegations of corrupt local officials with commando units demanding bribes
* embedded American journalists following the saga
* a murder with alternate allegations of settling a vendetta versus a framing job
* millionaire hiding in dirt to avoid authorities
* extreme measures to hide location, including numerous disguises and a decoy with a North Korean passport
* arrest and detection in yet another third-world country
* fake heart attacks to escape detention
Grab some popcorn, the second act hasn't even begun yet...
A fascinating attempt at re-engaging a failed troll. Really, though, it's time to move on and try again. They can't all be golden, y'know.
"There is no such thing as bad publicity..."
"...except your own obituary."
-- Brendan Behan
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I read at -1 because I happen to be a troll aficionado, for your information. Occasionally there are some really great ones, OP wasn't one of them.
He wasn't trolling, that was blasphemy
Does no-one else find it odd he's being deported to Belize? He's a U.S. citizen, he should be deported here. There is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Everyone on Slashdot in the story where he was captured assumed he would be exported to the U.S...
I'm not sure he's all there mentally but I am sure he's being screwed over by Belize and will be killed if he gets back there. Or possibly now and they'll just frame it as a heart attack.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Belize officials want him dead. Was this an assassination attempt? This is what Mcafee was worried about.
"It looks like your heart is at risk. You have not activated your emergency care subscription. Please stay protected by activating your subscription now."
>> "due to privacy considerations," the embassy would "have no comment on the specifics of this situation," but that, "U.S. citizens are subject to the laws of the countries in which they are traveling or residing, and must work within the host countries' legal framework."
Unlike if you piss of the US corporations which will drag you from your country to the US to face the laws for breaking the US laws on your own countries soil.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
The guy is a bath salts addict. It's likely any combination of the three, or possibly all ofhtem.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
As nature's version of the Microsoft Signature service.
McAfee gets uninstalled prior to shipping and we never have to see the trial.
Thanks for the edit.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Disregard what I just said above. I am the original poster.
I understand this guy founded a software company, but he's not exactly been a public figure until now. What's with all the fascination over this investigation?
It echoes strangely the Hans Reiser case.
In some ways it echoes every high-profile real-life and fictional encounter of the geek and the criminal law. The ego the size of the planet. There are the extra added attractions of the remote luxurious villainous Lair and the Bond women. The fulfillment of every adolescent sexual fantasy.
his name was MacAfee!
An expert on drug stuffing,
and how to stay free!
He ruled his roost in Belize,
and played around with drugs.
eventually his lifestyle,
fell to persistent bugs.
Yipiyiyahhh!
Yipiyiyoohhh!
McAfee in Belize!
McAffee used his freedom,
more ways than you or me,
trying to seduce women,
chemically!,
Trying to update drug rape,
while fighting to be free,
that is why the legend,
is called McAfee!
Yipiyiyahhh!
Yipiyiyoohhh!
McAfee in Belize!
Sheen sits in the shadow,
of the legend McAfee!
McAfee boasts of lying
no take backs McAfee!,
when you brag about a lie you made,
should we then buy your brag?
Too many false positives,
makes your story just a wag!
Yipiyiyahhh!
Yipiyiyoohhh!
McAfee in Belize!
One day his next door neighbor,
complained about his dogs.
Then things got complicated,
by the turning of the cogs,
Some dogs were dead by poison,
the neighbor dead by slugs.
it seems like John McAfee,
has more persistent bugs.
Yipiyiyahhh!
...
Yipiyiyoohhh!
McAfee in Belize!
USA Today said he was accompanied by his 20 year old girlfriend to the hospital. Perhaps the 2 minor heart attacks were after a conjugal visit?
He had seven live-in "companions" that age in Belize.
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.
A bizarre visit to John McAfee's pleasure palace in Belize
It's all about the FSB. The FSB and Kaspersky.
You see, Kaspersky and McAfee have been the two top contenders for the anti-virus throne for nearly a decade now - big money has been made by both sides. What few people know is that McAfee and Kaspersky have been working together for a long time on manufacturing crippling viruses, dividing up clients evenly, infiltrating large organisations with 'update backdoors' - and this isn't even all the illegal activities they've been involved in.
But in September of last year, McAfee stabbed their long-time cohorts in the back by making a move with Intel that manouvred McAfee into a market position that Kaspersky could no longer take - Ultrabooks. Anti-theft software you say? No, exclusive backdoors on a technology that they knew every manager across western society would procure. And McAfee had done this without Kaspersky. Why was this so important to Kaspersky? Because their greatest source of income/raison d'être was on-selling high-level root access to managerial and corporate systems across western society to the FSB (whom they work very closely with).
Now what has this got to do with McAfee the man and his purported murder of his next door neighbour? Let me tell you. The company McAfee's greatest mistake was not rebranding when the founder moved on. McAfee's brand is built on the name of the man himself. Turn the man into public enemy #1 and a crazy schizophreniac and you have destroyed the company's reputation.
This leads us back to the beginning: the FSB ordered and carried out the assasination of an innocent human to bring down a corporate empire so that McAfee would be forever distanced from the security industry and so that they would lose their foothold on the next big corporate purchase - ultrabooks. Kaspersky (FSB) badly wants their backdoors in the corporate west.
You've heard it here first.
I've never actually wished I had mod points before.
Bravo.
is whether he's already written the book. Perfect money making scheme.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
LIES!
I made this handy John McAfee Timeline Enjoy!
ABC News is reporting that a Guatemala City hospital found no reason to keep McAfee overnight.
Call it an anxiety attack, if you like.
You might want to compare and contrast these two photographs :
[This photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro] included meta-data revealing their precise location, which a reader quickly pinpointed as ''next to the pool at Nana Juana Hotel Marina and Yacht Club'' in Guatemala. McAfee was soon arrested. Oops.
McAfee, Vice, and the limits of hipster journalism
John McAfee Returned to Guatemala Detention Center After Hospitalization [Guatemala's National Police/AP Photo]
The impression I have is of a man who was flying high uo in the clouds only to come crashing down hard --- and not for the first time.
Jesus, if you're that sensitive about someone suggesting an alternative scenario I'm happy to let you "win."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
that's killing him.
I read at -1 because I happen to be a troll aficionado, for your information. Occasionally there are some really great ones, OP wasn't one of them.
He wasn't trolling, that was blasphemy
If it wasn't for the trolls I don't think slashdot would be half as much fun. Totally off-topic, but what happened to the MyCleanPC trolls? They were fucking hilarious.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Maybe, he forgot to pay his trial?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Why is this person given so much attention in the press?
Ah, the faked heart attack, longtime fallback plan of British MP's when anyone get's close to hauling them before a court. Depressingly it works every fscking time here.
Nice to see it didn't work this time ;)
Where did he commit the alleged crime?
He could have killed 400 people out in the open in Belize and it would not matter. Belize and Guatemala do not have an arrangement to extradite criminals.
The thing that matters, then thing he was arrested for, is entering the country illegally. So why would he be deported to any country except for the one he has a passport for? If I enter Germany illegally should they send me to the Netherlands?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley