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The Future of ReiserFS
lisah writes "With the announcement of Hans Reiser's arrest this week, many people have been wondering what this will mean for his company, Namesys, and the future of his filesystem work. According to a report at Linux.com, employees at Namesys are circling their wagons and plan to continue working on the project 'in the short term.' One employee admits, 'we are rather shaken and stressed at the moment, although I cannot say we didn't see it coming.'"
Nobody knows if he did kill his wife.
I assume they meant that they saw his arrest coming. (Since when wives disappear, husbands routinely get arrested or at the very least intensively questioned by police)
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And now that he's been arrested, the police have described some of their evidence against him. They found her blood in his house and in his car.
We don't know if he did it - yet - but we know more than enough to say that it's most probable that he did. It is, of course, possible he didn't, and we all hope that Nina will be found alive somewhere, but the most probable outcome is that Hans Reiser has, in fact, murdered Nina.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
This makes me wonder why they didn't put a link to info about his arrest in the article. Not everyone knew this, and it is just sloppy of the editors to NOT include a link to give a bit of context about the arrest.
I found info here, here, and here
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No they don't routinely get arrested. To arrest someone you have to have evidence - this means the police have evidence that he *did* kill his wife. They're only now trying to get a confession or enough to convince a jury.
If you have any evidence that he killed his wife, be sure to let us know. (and let the police know of course)
Oh, you mean like the blood splatters that were found in HIS car that has been confirmed as HER blood?
And the fact that the rear seats are missing from said car?
And the fact that he actively attempted to hide the car from police?
And the fact that he had books on how law enforcement handles homicide investigations?
Now, it could be the case that his wife had a nose bleed or had suffered a paper cut while riding with Hans, and it could be true that the whole hiding the car things was a misunderstanding (or fearing that the missing rear seat would look bad, he actually did try to hide it in panic), and it could be true that he purchased the books knowing that he would be a likely suspect so he wanted to know what was coming. However, the above taken with other observations about his behaviour does not paint a rosey picture. Sure, he is innocent until proven guilty, but there is at least enough evidence so far to strongly implicate him. It's not one of these "heck, we have no evidence and no clue, so lets just arrest the husband" deals.
Well ...
1. Mrs. Reiser has been missing for some time
2. Close relatives are *always* the first suspects
2.1. Especialy if they are in the middle of ugly divorce
2.1.1 AND there is some other pending litigation
Please look up some relevant news about this unfortunate case.
ANYBODY should have seen *some* unspecified problems comming
in this situation.
Hans is that important to Namesys and Namesys is the only group really working on ReiserFS. It is possible for some other group to pick up the project, but Hans aggravated alot of other developers, so...
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Was it too much for you to even glance at the title of the ONLY Related Story - you know, right below the summary?
"In addition, Reiser alleged that Sturgeon wrote into a contract that Reiser must participate in 'Death Yoga,' which he said has the purpose of 'slowing down one's heart to the point of death.'"
You think he might have second thoughts on letting someone else run the business? Just maybe?
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Poor moderators don't get the Harrison Ford, Fugative reference :(
But considering half of slashdot is under the age of 17, I'm not surprised. Anyway, I would have marked you funny
No you don't. Police can arrest anyone at any time. They do have to eventually charge you with something or release you (at least sometimes they do. The principle is Habeas corpus, which our government has spent the last 5 years undermining).
I can understand why you'd want to think this way. People like to believe that anyone the government goes after must have somehow deserved it. Its a shame that reality doesn't allways work that way.
And you're too young to remember that Harrison Ford was in the movie based on a TV show from the 60's, presumably... Still funny, of course.
GP was quoting from the original LKML post.
Asshat.
Thanks. This is where I made my quotation from.
Yes. It's called "A Trial by Public Jury" and you can bet your ass that the police in this stupid country leverage this to every benefit they can get from it.
In the US, you are tried by a jury of your 'peers'... Which is hardly the case. A nuclear scientist can be tried by janitors and bus drivers--but more likely, it's by anybody stupid enough not to be able to get out of jury duty.
I have. What a beautiful place, espcially when compared to any place that the pieces-of-shit who are being held there have visited. Have you heard the true story of their treatment? Apparently not...you know, the gaining of weight from an actual normal diet, the two hours (or more) a day that the bastards are allowed for recess (seriously...f'in recess!), the complete kissing of their asses by everyone there even when they are attacking our soldiers with poo and anything else they can find, the free Qorans and prayer rugs provided to them (not free, really...American taxpayers are providing them), and...well the ridiculous list goes on and on.
Give me a break with that bullshit. We got it already - you hate Bush...you don't HAVE to allow your hatred for our President to absolutely warp your small mind.
Just like they didn't hold Bernie S. (old 2600 site) without bail or hearing for suspicion of selling drugs because he was selling radio crystals. Right?
Oh. And they managed to top it off by throwing him on the stand while he was very ill and unable to defend himself. Obviously everyone simply "gets what's coming to them". Best to let that whole "burden of proof" and "innocent until *found* guilty" thing just slide.
Plus he's a fairly nice guy. Which makes it even worse.You're reading Slashdot. Of course you like Linux and pc hardware
For those who don't live out here the 'saw it coming' part *should* have been refering to the month long drama that has preceded this. Reiser going in to talk to police repeatedly, then refusing to cooperate, camera crews chasing him around, interview with his (or her?) mother. It's the full three ring treatment really but I don't know that it's gone into full circus mode nationally yet.
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No you don't. Police can arrest anyone at any time.
As as mattter of law, this is simply not true.
"PROBABLE CAUSE - A reasonable belief that a person has committed a crime. The test the court...employs to determine whether probable cause existed for purposes of arrest is whether facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge are sufficient to warrant a prudent person to believe a suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297, 1300 (9th Cir. 1992)." Legal Definition of Probable Cause
to put faces to names
hans reiser
nina reiser
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The war on terror is a war for peace
Er, no - here in the UK we think its a good idea if the evidence is presented to the public at a thing called a trial with a judge and a jury and a prosecution and a defense and due process and stuff. Its a bit like what you have in the US, but with more fancy dress.
We just think its a good idea if all the potential jurors haven't already seen the TV miniseries with the girl they quite fancied from "Lost" as the victim and that British guy who always plays the baddie in superhero films as the accused.
And, yes, arrests are reported, the charges are reported, and police do call for evidence - there are just rules to stop the media (mis)reporting the unchallenged case for the prosecution before the trial.
Of course, the guv'ment wants to bend the rules for spies, terrorists etc. but the UK is hardly alone in that, and they haven't entirely had it their own way.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
He's quoted horribly out of context. Courtesy of another poster, the complete quote:
Yes, we are rather shaked and stressed at moment, altough I can not say, we didn't seen it coming.
I, personally, really like how US police acted exactly like their russian counterpart: e.g. sitting on their ass for whole month, waiting, so they can declare person officially missing and then just press charges against whoever looks most vulnerable. Well, probably I am wrong. Time will show.
Currently, I own a car that:
Has spots of my wife's blood in it. I know this, because she's a diabetic and occasionally she gets drops of blood in weird places.
The front AND back seats are missing because the car is being renovated.
The car is 2 states away from me, under a tarp, I suppose you could say it is "hidden from local police".
I sure hope my wife comes home tonight from her job, or I'll probably get picked up for her murder in the not too distant future.
The missing seat is not odd at all. CRXs from that era are frequently souped up with DOHC VTEC + weight reduction to make one fast rice rocket.
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Here's an article about doing weight reduction on a CRX: http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/tech/0306ht_19
> The fact that he has been arrested is evidence.
There's not a courtroom in the country that will accept it as evidence, and just because you note a correlation does not make it into evidence. Even if you italicize it.
> So if there is such a correlation, someone's arrest is most definitely evidence that they have committed a crime
Well, it's a good thing they tend to ask about this very sort of thing on jury questionnaires. Thankfully it doesn't even cost a strike because even prosecutors won't contest a challenge on such naked bias.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
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