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John McAfee running for president
Anti-virus software tycoon John McAfee plans to run for President, the developer confirmed on Tuesday. He will run under his own newly created "Cyber Party."
http://time.com/4025991/john-mcafee-running-for-president/?xid=tcoshare
The self-described "eccentric millionaire," known for a strange run-in with authorities in Belize three years ago, said his primary motivation to enter the race was the government's problems with security and surveillance.
"We are losing privacy at an alarming rate — we have none left. We've given up so much for the illusion of security and our government is simply dysfunctional," he said, adding that he plans to release an explainer for his new Cyber Party.
John McAfee is running [for] president
McAfee, developer of the first commercial anti-virus program, has said he is going to announce a bid for the White House, and will create the Cyber Party to do so. "I have a huge underground following on the web," he told CNN. The website McAfee2016.com has also popped up.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 10 2015, @05:52AM
Get a load of what The Economist has had to say about Donald Trump [economist.com].
I expect McAfee is quite a good coder but he doesn't make a whole lot of sense when he speaks.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by bradley13 on Thursday September 10 2015, @06:11AM
I'd love to read TFA, but their little graphic that apparently contains the key quotes never loads. Why? Well, Ghostery reports no less than 18 external sites blocked - presumably one of those is essential to reading the site. News sites don't even host their own content anymore? WTF?
The last time I turned off ghostery, I was presented with one of those "Your computer has been locked, you will need to pay...". Which was nonsense, but it did lock up my browser nicely. Mainly, it shows just how little control sites have over what advertisers inject. Some scammer makes the bid, they can put whatever they want onto your screen.
So I'll leave Ghostery on. If the economist wants people to read its material, they'll have to either serve the ads off of their own server (thus taking responsibility for them), or else find some other way to fund themselves.
Hey, Yahoo does it. Embedded in their recommended articles is one of those "work at home and make millions" scams. It looks just like an article, except for the faint marking (light gray text) that it is "sponsored". Maria Shutova must get around a lot, because she lives in my town! Wow! And in everyone else's town as well!
/rant
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday September 10 2015, @08:10AM
There is a regionally-significant news site around here that doesn't even have a robots.txt. If I do a "site:" search for its domain, the #1 says "Attack Detected" because it thinks that Googlebot is a script kiddie trying to penetrate its RSS feed.
Its homepage contains hundreds and hundreds of URIs, mostly javascripts that timeout with the result that the site doesn't work at all over dialup, which lots of people around here still use.
I'm going to send them a proper business letter, on letterhead, with my business card clipped to it, as well as trifold brochure. My cover letter will read more or less "No one subscribes to your website because it is a multitude of sins".
There is no damn good reason to link more than two javascript sources per page: a sitewide one, and a second for a subset of the site. Page-specific script can be embedded in the page itself. Similarly with CSS.
And they're using dozens of web bugs per page, I expect because they are blissfully unaware that there even is such a thing as log file analysis.
That's why the traditional print media bent over and took it like a punk when facebook, uh... "offered" to publish the print media's stories, uh... "for" them: even though the JS and CSS at facebook is just as bad, everyone has it cached, so the news stories load quickly.
My message is that I'm going to free them from facebook. No doubt zuckerberg will take out a contract on my life.
One Can Only Hope.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 10 2015, @02:32PM
The details are slightly different here, but yeah - if I've got to enable a bunch of crazy-ass cross-site scripting, THEN enable cookies, THEN watch a damned advertisement - I've forgotten what the hell I wanted to read by then. I seldom play that game anymore - I just close the page and move on.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!