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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?
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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?
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?
But 1 and 3 could be true, or 2 and 3. So, "one or more" can be fulfilled with those subsets.
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?
Followed by "John McAfee Leaps Off 100 Foot Waterfall; Mentions Trying to Find One-armed Man".
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
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...
"It looks like your heart is at risk. You have not activated your emergency care subscription. Please stay protected by activating your subscription now."
No kidding
"John McAfee wins 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton said to be distraught and very high."
"John McAfee wins Nobel Peace and Chemistry Prizes, reads James Joyce's Ulysses backwards while eating cocaine cookies at acceptance speech"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"There is no such thing as bad publicity..."
"...except your own obituary." -- Brendan Behan
Jesus Christ disagrees.
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.
Hourly updates on McAfee seem superfluous.
My school's free AV software was Sophos, and it would check for updates every 10 minutes.