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Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder
Many readers wrote about the arrest today of Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS, by Oakland, CA police on suspicion of murdering his estranged wife. From the San Francisco Chronicle: "Hans Reiser, 42, was taken into custody at 11 a.m., hours after Oakland police and FBI technicians searched his home in the Oakland hills. His estranged wife, Nina Reiser, 31, has been missing since Sept. 3, when she dropped off the couple's son and daughter at his home on the 6900 block of Exeter Drive... Police made the arrest based on circumstantial evidence and have not found Nina Reiser's body, [Hans Reiser's attorney] Du Bois said. 'I have no idea what the circumstantial evidence is,' he said. 'When I hear what the evidence is against him, I'll make a decision as to whether he'll talk to them.'" kimvette writes, "While the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic, Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4. If Reiser is found guilty, will Novell or IBM pick up the pieces and finish up Reiser 4 for inclusion in the kernel or is this the end of the Reiser filesystem project? Will there be any future for the Reiser filesystem, and if Hans is found guilty and the project is continued, will the project be renamed to avoid notoriety?"
Would that mean if I used ReiserFS that I support murder? Back to ext
That honour should be Linsux, as in if someone is too cheap to use Windows, it should cause the entire computer to explode taking the fucktard and anhy other person around it out of the gene pool. Oh that means all Shitdot sheeple will die.
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Everytime I've used ReiserFS, some of my files have gone missing. I think they're dead.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
ahem ... evidence ? Is that required ?
You guys managed to send that Peterson guy to the death row withoud either a body, a confession or even a first hand witness. He was basically conviced to death for beeing a cheating asshole.
American courts convict on sympathy, knee jerk bigotry and showmanship of the various lawyers.
Here's another thing most people aren't saying ...
What's more important, a single unremarkable life or a highly influential piece of software? Lives aren't so valuable that they are automatically more valuable than everything else. You wouldn't say that a single life was more valuable than the U.S.S. Eisenhower (which costs billions of dollars).
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>>> All the evidence suggests that the severity of punishments have little to NO impact on the number of those crimes perpetrated.
All the evidence? As stated, the "severity of punishments" can be explained by the realization that the punishments aren't typically punishments to those involved. As countering evidence, most people don't recommit minor crimes, one night in a cell block is good enough for them. Also, how many of us might have thought about committing violence against someone at some point, but didn't, because we don't want to be in prison or on death row? That a fairly small portion of criminals don't see severe punishment as a deterrent doesn't mean it is ineffective.
>>> So why do you want to do this again? Revenge? An eye for an eye? Is that it?
Deterrence. As long as society isn't willing to educate, employ, or provide for all it's members, you're going to need some means of dealing with the folks that put themselves into situations where violent crime is a viable means to an end. Happy, satisfied people don't commit violent crimes. To deter the extremely depressed, scared, and others whose emotions have dropped to a primitive level, you need a threat that catches their attention. Something that threatens to make their existance worse. It won't work for everyone, but not using it at all, because it makes us feel bad, means we're not using all the tools we have to deal with the problem. Currently, it's like we have a $20 set of tools, and we're trying to use them to fix every problem.
Simply knowing that the punishment is available, even if it's rarely used, is a good thing, if it stops one violent crime. Unfortunately, we'll probably never know exactly how many crimes ARE NOT committed because of the threat of a certain punishment. Which it why it's more important to have a variety of them available, even if we almost never use them. The more we have, the more people will likely find one that convinces them it's not worth it.
Besides, we're not talking about shoplifters, we're talking about people who take the life of another human. You don't just wake up a murderer, there's a whole lot of things that lead up to the situation, and that means a whole lot of time to convince such people to avoid this behavior. We're simply not convincing enough, currently.
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I can not maintain the code.
I doubt you can tie your own shoes.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Now, if only he could defragment his wife.
Would that improve her performance?
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It's not dogma, it's based on statistics. Study the prison population, study the criminals, about 20% of the prison population are psychopaths, about 20% of prisoners give or take, don't feel any guilt at all for what they have done, and just don't give a fuck about you, me, or themselves.
You can call it dogma, but you know that these sorts of people exist and are common, you've met people with the "I don't give a fuck" attitude before havent you? Hell you may even have that attitude yourself. The difference is, when a psychopath has that attitude, they actually mean it. All violent acts, are violent expressions of violent thoughts, so it makes more sense to study psychology than numbers, as the brain does control the actions of the body, not statistics.
If you don't want to call these people psychopath murderers, fine, call them evil, or better, evil psychopaths. Don't get me wrong, not all psychopaths are evil, it takes a certain mix. Either way it's important to study criminology and the criminal mind, this is what he police and FBI do when they want to solve a crime or prevent crime. So if the FBI is involved, they already know if this guy is psycho or not, and they know about his wife too, and if he is a suspect it might be for a lot of very specific reasons.
First you have to ask, is this guy capable of killing his wife? Okay sure, depending on the situation anyone is capable of killing anyone, so was he suicidal? was he depressed during the informal interview? Just look at Scott Peterson, he was interviewed on national TV and because he displayed all the signs of a psychopath in his response, this is one of the main reasons why the public turned against him. He displayed no remorse at all to the general public, and it scared people, and when he did display emotion, it did not even seem real, it looked forced.
If you want peer reviewed studys, use Google, if you want to study criminology, go study it, everyone knows about the criminal mind, if you want to study how people can commit these crimes in the first place, study psychology, as it takes a certain personality type to actually pull off THIS sorta crime, not manslaughter, not homicide, this was murder, planned out, not the sorta crime that normal people spend all night and day thinking about. Normal people don't even hit their wife.
Let's hope, that it's not as bad as it seems or that some information is missing, because if it isnt, he could get convicted, and yes the jury will take his psychological profile into account when it's brought up in the case.