He wants your jerb.
It’s pretty easy to blame technology for everything from poor social skills to crappy music. But one MIT professor is arguing that robots are actually to blame for productivity going up while the job market stagnates. And that it’ll get worse.
Despite not having to do anything with the company he founded and then sold over a decade ago, John McAfee, of McAfee Antivirus, still receives letters to this day from angry customers, wondering how they can uninstall the damn thing. (Ronald L. McDonald of Hamborger, Mississippi has the same problem — no, he CAN’T do anything about the dead mouse you found in your Big Mac.) He’s moved onto other things, guys, like lighting his cigarettes with money, getting kissed on the cheek by gorgeous women, and wearing only the finest bathrobes fit for a software mogul.
But in a new video, he aims to set the record straight on how to get rid of McAfee Antivirus, which used to be a “beautiful software and [then] they took it over. I don’t know what they did,” “they” being Intel. Lap dances, bath salts, and loaded pistols are involved. Did I say “hilariously” in the headline? I meant this is McAfee’s real life.
BUT BUT BUT I DON’T WANNA COMPETE IN A FAIR AND OPEN MARKET!
Recently, Verizon broadband subscribers have been running into problems with Netflix. A little digging has turned up that this is not because of Netflix’s servers, or technical problems, but because Verizon is essentially throwing a hissy. Read the rest of this entry »
We rip on AT&T around here a bit. OK, a lot. But far be it from us not to acknowledge when a company has a good idea, and in fact, AT&T’s new Street Charge initiative is pretty close to brilliant. Read the rest of this entry »
As some consumers become more and more concerned about PRISM and just what, precisely, the government is looking at, tech companies have been revealing how many requests they get from federal, state, and local law enforcement, generally numbers which include FISA requests, the court under which PRISM operates. And there are a few surprises in the numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
If there’s one law when it comes to Facebook watching, it’s that there’s no good idea in social media that Facebook won’t eventually imitate. Hence, the news that Facebook will be turning Instagram into Instavine is, perhaps, not a big surprise. Read the rest of this entry »
Google is, for better or worse, a repository of many things. Among those things are sites that can direct you to child pornography. And Google has officially decided to put an end to it, once and for all. Read the rest of this entry »
Publicity stunts don’t get much more straightforward than this. Pink Floyd has announced that they’ll release their entire catalog on Spotify, provided you listen to their seminal song “Wish You Were Here” one million times. No, really. Read the rest of this entry »
As PRISM starts unwinding, one thing that will come to light is how easily companies complied with the ruling. It turns out that the staunchest defender of your civil rights was, of all companies, Yahoo!. Yes, Yahoo!. Read the rest of this entry »
