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John McAfee announces he's running for President
- jeletonskelly 11y agoThe Cyber Party... really? This will be entertaining at least.
- imglorp 11y agoYeah, that will be the limit. You can run a right wing, loudmouth, ignorant asshole as long as he hits some of the concerns of middle America. But you'll never run someone with his background, no matter how smart he is. The conservative voters (and I'm thinking the camo and nascar group here, ie 95 percent of the country) are still hung up on "drug bad", "white good" and other one-syllable talking points.
- mahouse 11y agoWell, the Pirate Party exists...
- jeletonskelly 11y agoIn the US and in any meaningful capacity?
- mahouse 11y agoIt does not even exist in any meaningful capacity in Europe.
- hacker_9 11y agoThis is so crazy... that it might just work?? If I think of McAfee three things come to mind: 1. Creator of awful anti-virus software that slows your computer to a halt. 2. Fled Belize on some murder scandal. 3. Is crazy paranoid. So if he is to have any chance he should really be spending all his money in the PR department...
- pizza234 11y agoNote that when he created scan, it was a very different software from the one which became later.
- rednum 11y agoSupposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel. I don't have a source on that, but I've seen this sentiment in a few places. As for some murder scandal, I think it makes sense to check out his side of story: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mcafee_ama/cu9wrrj?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc... https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mcafee_ama/cu9xnoh?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc... The entire AMA is quite interesting, though he seems a bit paranoid indeed (on the other hand - if there's some truth in Belize government opressing him, I'm not surprised).
- SingAlong 11y agoSource about McAfee software quality going down is John McAfee himself. He made & starred in a video to explain uninstalling McAfee. [NSFW] https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8
- rednum 11y agoI know about this video, but I think opinions of users who used this software back when McAfee actually worked on it (who apparently left company mid-nineties) would be more trustworthy than his own claims. I've tried some googling, but couldn't find anything.
- m0v_eax 11y agoI was hoping this wasn't posted yet XD - I believe his recent revelations are as much of a troll as this video.
- dagw 11y agoSupposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel McAfee was only bought by Intel in 2011, it was getting worse and worse for years before that.
- weedthrowaway 11y agoAt least he's against government backdoors...
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- donatj 11y agoI feel like a lot of what was said on https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ alone would lose a lot of voters.
- petepete 11y agoWorking link: https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/
- mkl 11y agoFixed link: https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ Is this for real? It sounds like a parody. "My tools for national security consulting are primarily a semi-auto .22 rifle with a silencer." "I also do my most productive security designs while having extended sex." "My favorite real-time software is the XM153 remote control software that comes standard with the XM153 50 caliber machine gun."
- donatj 11y agoEverything else on the site is real, so I can't imagine they'd have a single parody article mixed in.
- tormeh 11y ago"My accessory tools are mostly extremely strong espresso and research chemicals from China that are classed as "Smart Drugs". They allow me to solve 2nd order partial differential equations in my head and to spontaneously create 4 dimensional images of software structures that I can mentally manipulate." It's not an article; it's an interview. The questions are not satire, but his answers surely are.
- thefreeman 11y agoHe is a total nut job and a drug addict. People seem to have forgotten this.
- sp332 11y ago
- leojg 11y agoI am not an US citizen, but I have more faith in him as a president than any other of the candidates, after all you should trust him he is, sort of, an engineer
- nanny 11y agoAre you kidding? So what if he's an engineer? The guy's a lunatic and this is nothing more than some weird publicity stunt. It's a cry for attention, nothing more. This whole race has become a circus.
- presty 11y agoyou guys need to take things a little bit less seriously.. leojg was using the "Trust Me, I'm an Engineer" meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trust-me-im-an-engineer
- leojg 11y agoyeah... but it seems that HN users lack of sense of humor :(
- krapp 11y agoHumor is not intellectually stimulating, and has been optimized away in favor of elitist posturing. Memes are for the normals on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.
- mikeash 11y agoNah, HN is totally fine with humor. But it has to actually be funny. Unfortunately, for unfunny people, it's easy to confuse this with "no humor allowed."
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago
- ohitsdom 11y agoHis website is down... not a good look for the Cyber Party candidate. https://mcafee2016.com/ https://mcafee2016.com/ Edit: this was the link from the article. My bad, no https.
- evandev 11y agoThe site isn't https. http://mcafee16.com/ http://mcafee16.com/
- geoff-codes 11y agoOf course its not. After all, why would it be?
- VT_Drew 11y agoIf there are no forms to submit (user login, searches, etc.), then why would it be?
- btown 11y agoWe can make it look like McAfee is saying even more ridiculous things than he actually says! All we have to do is MITM a reporter's computer while they're at a coffee shop, send them a link to that site, and have them believe they're reading the real site while we make it seem like it has offensive content! Totally worth it!
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y agoFor one, it has a donate button you could remove or redirect to some other account. It also has instructions how to register for voting an opponent theoretically might want to sabotage in order to deny him some votes. These two things are basically the only content of the site.
- provemewrong 11y ago>mcafee 16 Sounds like an antivirus.
- halis 11y agoJohn McAfee is certifiably nuts..he would make me more afraid for this country than Trump!
- m0v_eax 11y agoI wouldn't go that far. At least he would probably not start a war..
- debacle 11y agoI'm glad he can have fun with life.
- benevol 11y agoRelax, McAfee is just trolling. As is Trump. It's either just for the sake of trolling or some sort of distraction strategy, i.e. making all "real" (and still crazy/bad/horrible candidates) look less crazy/bad/horrible by being an even worse joke oneself. Plus, in the US, your cat can run for President. It means absolutely nothing.
- Mtinie 11y ago> Plus, in the US, your cat can run for President. It means absolutely nothing. Legally? Only if your cat is over the age of thirty-five and is a natural born citizen of the United States. The age requirement is a tough one...I believe that would make your cat the Ralph Hall of feline politicans.
- mikeash 11y agoDepends on what "run" means. Can the cat become President? Clearly not. Can the cat get on the ballot? I imagine every locality requires people on the ballot to be eligible to take the office in question, so no. But we're not even at that stage yet. Right now, "running for President" is nothing more than an announcement that a person is doing so. It's one of those actions that you can perform merely by stating that you're doing it, like "I apologize" or "I order you to ...." And on that note, I'm running for President too. Unlike most cats, I'm actually eligible, so I have that going for me.
- oskarth 11y agoTrump is certainly not trolling. Don't underestimate the probability that he will win.
- dagw 11y agoHis probability of winning doesn't affect the fact that he's trolling. In fact winning would just make the troll more successful.
- IgorPartola 11y agoI am guessing that probability is close to zero. The presidential race is a multi-stage contest. Trump happens to be good at working the current stage, but his current actions will eventually catch up to him later. I used to be a big fan of the show Survivor. Russell Hantz had a similar run: twice in a row he made it all the way to the end, but because of how he got there he could not actually win the grand prize. Trump is similar: he is going to pull a lot of stunts, get lots of attention and spend lots of money. Then the rubber meets the road and he'll lose. The real question is whether he is going to be the Republican nominee, because if he is then they'll be handing the victory over to the Democrats. My guess is that like many vanity candidates before Trump, he'll fizzle out before the primaries, but if he does make it even more hilarity will ensue.
- btbuildem 11y agoOh good, there's a clown on the other side now. Reddit AMA went to his head..
- eli 11y agoOther side of what?
- joshstrange 11y agoNo, he is in his own party. He might be crazier than Trump though....
- dynomight 11y agoI like him.
- dynomight 11y agoWhoever downvotes without an explanation is a poophead. I still like him.
- gushie 11y agoJust keep an eye out for any legislation that attempts to eradicate the flu... they could result in the USA grinding to a complete halt.
- ryan-allen 11y agoIf this man or Donald Trump become POTUS I'm going to secede from Planet Earth.
- mentos 11y agoHmm maybe this is an attempt to make any hit attempt on him an assassination..?
- happyscrappy 11y agoIs the software so bad people are willing to murder over it?
- rcavezza 11y agoThis man sounds confident. "I have a huge underground following on the web," McAfee said. "I promise you I will win because I have the votes."
- drivingmenuts 11y agoWell, now we know who the 4chan candidate is ... This is the sort of guy they can rally around and at least keep him up in the polls.