McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight 201
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."
...and nobody came. (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, how long are we going to keep feeding this poor nutcase's attention habit?
Human rights advocate? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:I don't know about the man... (Score:5, Insightful)
thought experiment (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Also, the sky is blue, and water is wet (Score:3, Insightful)
A Central American government with widespread corruption? Say it isn't so !
Re:must-see TV (Score:5, Insightful)
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. ...
While I can understand calling McAfee a head case, not sure what Julian or Kim have done to be called that.
Re:The guy has sex with underage girls (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Intel (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:thought experiment (Score:2, Insightful)
It is amazing how little people understand about the way the world works outside of the major countries. To me Mcaffe's fear seems totally reasonable. The guy can be a bit weird at times, but that doesn't make him guilty.
Re:I don't know about the man... (Score:5, Insightful)
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 [ft.com], 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.”
Re:You Hypocrites! (Score:2, Insightful)
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...
Dude, I wouldn't take a lifetime with a succession of sexually appealing women while driving fast cars and drinking Tequila for one hour of his time.
And that's even assuming that the former option wouldn't be shorter, which it would be for some folks.
Re:The guy has sex with underage girls (Score:4, Insightful)
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 [whoismcafee.com].
Re:I don't know about the man... (Score:3, Insightful)
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?