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paysonwelch writes "John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer and human rights advocate, today announced that he will host a news conference to ask the world for its protection against the Government of Belize. On his official blog, whoismcafee.com, Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption. Because of this, Mr. McAfee feels that he will be in grave danger if he were to be returned to there."
Seriously, how long are we going to keep feeding this poor nutcase's attention habit?
John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer and human rights advocate...
I would have worded that slightly differently. Maybe something like this:
John McAfee, famed antivirus software pioneer, paranoiac, hedonistic designer drug addict, possible crack head, and guy with a really bad dye job...
Yes... Maybe something like that.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Wonderful person?! Do a quick google search about some of the interviews he has given or about WHY he moved to Belize. He's not fighting corruption. He's fighting for his ego.
Wouldn't it be funny if this McAfee guy was telling the truth?
Just because you're weird doesn't mean you're a liar. I'm not saying he's not cuckoo, but stranger things have happened than what McAfee is asserting happened to him.
I just hope he doesn't get hurt and doesn't hurt anyone. And I hope he's merely delusional.
You are welcome on my lawn.
A Central American government with widespread corruption? Say it isn't so !
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I'm going to pitch a reality show to the networks starring McAfee, Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom.
The Larry, Moe and Curly of Internet head cases. And each week they travel the world to interview other Internet head cases that are simultaneously heroes and repulsive. Hilarity and pie fights ensue.
The opening credits are their three faces, arranged side by side in the manner of the famous opening for Three Stooges episodes. Or maybe dress them up like D'Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis. Or Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
Tell me you wouldn't watch those three lovable knuckleheads get into trouble and adventure. Get some woman to play a Margaret Dumont type character and you've really got a hit on your hands.
You are welcome on my lawn.
systems running mcafee are in grave danger of ruining slow or crashing.
How's dodging taxes working out for you? USA due process seems pretty good now, right? Maybe even USA jails.
You know what, fuck you. You didn't want to be here. So fine, you get to stay there, wherever it is. Fuck you.
Mr. McAfee has accused the Belize government of widespread corruption.
Says the sixty-seven year old guy who bought an off-shore island retreat for himself, seven barely-of-age sexual playmates, and the chance to fry his brain, and perhaps those of the girls as well, with an unlimited supply of home-brewed psychoactive drugs.
The guy who escaped to a country
founder of awful antivirus
Actually, it used to be really good antivirus software.
Of course, the dominant PC operating system at that time was MS-DOS 3.3, but still, it used to be pretty good.
The damage it is doing to the McAfee brand must be significant.
Surely it can't compete with the damage to the brand that's been caused by the software, can it?
"McAfee's an egomaniacal, drug-addled degenerate! Let me ignore this please! I have to entertain myself with tales of honorable serial-killers!"
I'm pretty sure that there isn't one of you, who'd not give his right-nut, for just ONE of John McAfee's weekends...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
17 is not underage in most of the world.
Was blown away by Dexter tonight.
Good! Whatever you did I'm sure you deserved to get blown away by Dexter...
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Following the advice of someone upthread, I googled why McAffee moved to Belize and came up with "Four hours with John McAffee" by Adam Thomson, a lively and entertaining read.
The article tells the story of McAffee's education, flight from school, and nearly accidental entrepreneurship and helped me to understand what there is to admire about him, especially given all that I knew about him was that the software bearing his name seems to be reviled by anyone with a technological clue and that he seems to be involved in some kind of chicanery that led to the execution of his neighbor.
On of my favorite parts of the article is its last paragraph, which seems to reveal McAffee has a sense of (ironic) perspective somewhere in among the fantasies occupying his mind:
We took some pictures, shook hands and said our farewells. There was just one more question, though: “Do you have McAfee antivirus on your computer?” He looked at me and put down his cigarette. “I take it off,” he said. “It’s too annoying.”
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I find it kind of funny how a guy that left America to avoid paying taxes is now hoping to get back in due to (as he claims) being framed for a murder after not paying bribes to the government. Oh, so now you want to pay taxes and get my sympathy? Nice.
The guy has sex with underage girls
Not that same BS again about Samantha being underage.
As much as some of you are repulsed by the idea of a 66 years old man with a 20 years old younger woman, that doesn't make her remotely underage.
I didn't have to look far. Just back a few pages. Bing search, too, if that makes much difference.
Guatemala wants to deport him to Belize, but he is a US citizen. Instead of trying to stay in Guatemala, I would think he has a better chance of convincing them to return him to the US (at his expense, due to the greater distance compared to Belize) than of being allowed to stay in Guatemala.
But I see no sign that he's trying to go back to the US. Did he surrender his US citizenship?
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There is inferior bacteria on the interior of your posterior.
I just tried Bing, but by the time I got to around page 20 (skipping every 4-5 pages), I was given a captcha trying to get me to type some bullshit hard-to-read gibberish in to verify I'm not a machine. Fuck that shit, and I'll pass on using Bing in the future. Nice try, Microsoft. Not only did I still not find anything relevant, I was unable to skip through the search results to actually find something of interest without being bothered and accused of being a malicious computer.
"We know you want to get back to searching, and we want to help you do that.
We ask that you view the characters in the following picture and enter them in the box below."
Sure they want to help me get back to searching. Goodbye, Bing. You've helped immensely at reminding me that there are better search engines out there, where even if I still can't find something relevant for a particular query, at least their sites don't actively get in the way and prevent you from viewing the results.
He's not a murderer and methcook. He's just a victim of circumstance and government conspiracy just like Hans fucking Reiser.
Who edits this crap?
Guatemala wants to deport him to Belize, but he is a US citizen.
Right here you know something fishy is up.
Guatemala has no extradition treaty with Belize. The fact that he is an American citizen means that automatically, that is where he should be sent when deported, he has no say in the matter since he has entered the country illegally.
Being deported to Belize means someone, or many someones are being paid off by Belize.
Unfortunately for McAffee, he's been deemed wacky enough that the U.S. government seems unlikely to try and help him, even though he'll probably be killed if sent to Belize.
Fortunately for McAffee, he has a lot of money (apparently). The delay you see in deportation is probably the attempt to get him to out-bid Belize.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I did a "quick google search" and I still don't get it - it looks like he was trying to develop new forms of antibiotics, which could help cure disease - is that evil? He bought some property and sold it again? Is that evil? Should I do a slow Google search rather, or are you perhaps just going to provide us some direct links?
I'm 34 and to be honest the idea of having sex with anyone under the age of about 22 is getting creepier and more unappealing with each year that goes by. I think I went off the idea of sleeping with 17 year olds when I was about 20. Should I to expect some kind of mid-life crisis related reversion around 50 r something? How much older are you talking about?
(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30 757 874 newtons
I only find comments about people hating him without any legit reason, just like Assange. Come on, they are trying to help the population against the business-controlled government who try to take control over everything, let's help them please.
Seriously, is slashdot getting paid to post this retarded shit about a delusional, obscure loser?
He hasn't done anything of note in years, and when he was an actual tech person he made shitty software.
I'm sorry, are you talking about McAfee or RMS?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So when it's Belize or some other central-American country it's corruption, but if it's the United States we're talking about it's "problems?" Just little pesky problems? That sounds like pure hypocrisy to me. If you really want to play the dictionary game, could they not be called "problems" in Belize as well--perhaps just bigger ones?
That sounds to me like the same reasoning people have when they whine when someone calls other people who are mentally retarded "retarded", and then request that everyone refers to them as being "slow," "special," "challenged" or some other--dare I say it--retarded word. It's the same damn thing, just different wording, purposely more neutral and less negative in connotation, or even pointlessly positive in some cases. All to change the perception.
Just because corruption is not as bad here doesn't mean that it does not exist.
For your murder/jaywalking comparison, though I'm not talking about either one here, the United States government considers many relatively harmless, petty things as "crimes" with severe criminal penalties. People get punished hardcore for stupid shit every day here in the U.S. in ways that make their actual "crimes" seem as pathetic as jaywalking. Jails and prisons are meant to keep dangerous people away from society where they cannot harm people, yet with the current laws people are held imprisoned for things that are completely harmless. One famous case in point? Tommy Chong. Time in the slammer with potentially actual dangerous people for being involved in selling glass pipes. People harmed? Zero. Last I heard, no one was beat to death with a fucking bong.