John McAfee talks of sex, drugs, and bad coding Tech mogul turned fugitive blogger John McAfee has been taking questions in a Slashdot Q&A that reveal a claimed life of drug smuggling, political corruption, and living with a hammered testicle. The British-born McAfee recounts that from 1971 to 1982 (when he was employed by UNIVAC and Computer Sciences Corporation to write …
Nonsense. Utter nonsense. Everyone knows that McAfee A/V is the *2nd* worst software on the planet.
Norton AV, especially in the 2007 - 2008 versions, was obviously THE worst sequence of evil bits to ever stalk the Earth.
SAP is right there in 3rd with its mystic runes, moving still buggy Facebook down into 4th.
Honourary Mention to Microsoft for the Windows 8 unnecessary fiasco, and a Special Prize to The World's 4th Largest Airforce for their Ubuntu 10 with the MBR-consuming Grub monster.
"As to name association, I am a master at sullying my own name and, all things considered, being associated with the worst software on the planet ranks way down the pole... It's barely a blip in the ocean of associations – madman, paranoid, child molester, murderer, drug addict, unstable, liar, to name but a few."
Wow... Just wow.
Anyone else read this in the voice of Robert Downy Jr. (as Stark)?
Uhhh, I was going to post that exact name! This man, for better or worse, has lived! Truthfully, I feel like this man is the I.T. equivalent of where the buffalo roam, the land between. Undoubtedly proof that I.T. isn't always physically boring.
This man should be the bad example of the I.T. world. The kind of bad example that can be inspiring. Where are the McAfee T-Shirts !!!!
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...if they'd applied the hammer to the other end of his anatomy!! Think head - not foot!!
I bet the current owners of McAfee are well chuffed at being associated with this mad man. Presumably they are now wishing they'd bought Norton instead.
I am not convinced he hasn't been involved in the code for over 20 years; I am sure I can feel hints of his madness in their products.
I had to jump out of an old cargo plane over the Himalayas and we used a life raft to soften our landing in the snow then we slid over a cliff into a river and ended up having dinner with a Raj who was really the leader of a death cult and we only escaped by crossing a gorge on a rope bridge then cutting it down before the bad guys got across. We did succeed in recovering the precious stones and returning them to the villagers they had been stolen from. Then I went and found the Holy Grail but I lost it down a hole. That sure was some scene. Now I'm just kicking back and writing a blog while I'm planning my next big adventure: I'm going to look for proof of ancient aliens.
"When asked about the practices of the security software company that still bears his name, McAfee said he'd had no input into the company for the last 21 years (leaving in 1994 after selling the firm to Network Associates for a rumored billion-dollar payout) and the current code was "was none of my doing."
"As to name association, I am a master at sullying my own name and, all things considered, being associated with the worst software on the planet ranks way down the pole," he said. "It's barely a blip in the ocean of associations – madman, paranoid, child molester, murderer, drug addict, unstable, liar, to name but a few.""
When McAfee oozed back into the U.S., I prognosticated on these forums that it was only a matter of time before he started bagging on Intel and how they were running a certain epynomously named IT security company.
It makes me wonder about my own mental state to think that I may be simpatico with this guy!! Maybe I should be taken off the streets!
As for the last part of his above quote--wow...just wow.
I wonder if there are brand equity people at Intel who are now seriously considering a rechristening of McAfee (the software company).
Sony has always made good audiovisual (AV) equipment for consumers, but they are not usually the best value for money.
As to your computer, it is likely the HHD (half-hearted drive) is slowing it down, as a total capacity of 320Megabits = only 40 Megabytes, which means the drive likely dates to the late 1980s.
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