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Hans Reiser in Court Today
An anonymous reader writes "Hans Reiser has pled not guilty to murdering his wife and invoked his right to a speedy trial. He will attend a hearing today where the judge will decide if the state has a case " We had covered this story back when it had first broke; and for those of you playing catch-up, Hans is the author of ReiserFS.
for not blowing this up to Scott Peterson level.
This just goes to show you that stuff like this happens all the time that never gets seen in national media.
I'm sure you'll find that our good friend Hans has no record of this ever taking place.
"We had covered this story back when it had first broke; "
Yet somehow you managed to never run a single story on James Kim.
He didn't directly kill her... He was trying to explain why reiserfs was better than ext4 and her head exploded.
See, there's no reason to fear abandonment of the Reiser FS if this dude gets locked up.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I don't know about the rest of the Slashdotters here, but I have 3 kids. Hans has 2, who are in Protective Services right now (not a great place for the kids to be).
Key point about the kids from TFA:
(emphasis added)Nina's boyfriend Sean Sturgeon allegedly practices BDSM, raped Nina, engages in "death yoga", made death threats against Hans, cheated with a married woman, and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Hans Reiser:
h tml
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_256204954.
Hans Reiser, on the other hand, is a linux developer.
Guess which one the cops arrested and which one isn't even a suspect?
That he tried to delete the evidence from his computer, but unfortunately he was using a journaling file system.
You guys are lucky! Here in the UK they Government/Police can keep trying again and again until they get the result they want.
Not quite. If a full jury (every single member) finds you not guilty, you are done. If any single member can not make up their mind, it is a mistrial, and the state gets to try again. And again. And again.
I mean, seriously, anyone who's ever touched Reiser knows that there are things that go missing from time to time, but sometimes they reemerge without you doing anything whatsoever. Maybe they should just sit there and wait, maybe rearrange a few pieces of furniture and I bet she'll suddenly and mysteriously appear in the middle of the living room.
Yes, I do agree, we need a "tasteless" tag.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
was the revenge bit, which was at the center of that argument. Do you really think revenge is going to do any good? You know where an 'eye for an eye' leads to? If you need to kill somebody to feel better, no matter what the circumstances, you belong behind bars or in a psychiatric ward.
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
It'll be called IFIDIDITFS.
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Actually if I recall correctly she was Russian, and studying to be a medical doctor.
They'll just start hurding all of us coders into 'state correctional institions'
Gods, that'd be even worse!
sic transit gloria mundi
er, ALL of the points seem to be hearsay from the article. All were claims by Hans, and nothing was reported to substantiate those claims.
I'm sure the police would have looked at her current love interest, and apparently they didn't find cause to suspect him as much as Reiser.
Luckily you know you've got decades to avoid that particular fate...
Not quite true. Firstly, this only applies to England and Wales. Scotland still has the "no double jeopardy" rule. Secondly, the state can try once for a second trial, but only if evidence which could not have been available at the initial trial is available. ISTR that permission from the House of Lords is needed to even launch another trial - and the HoL will refuse if the evidence is not the sort which would have radically altered the original outcome if not challenged. Also, I think that the offences covered for this sort of double jeopardy must be the most serious type (murder, rape, etc.)
I can't say I really approve of it (equality of arms, and all that), but then, we don't have the death penalty, so it's not like a defendant appeal couldn't be launched. The first conviction under these rules was for someone who had been acquitted and then confessed publicly to the murder [although even a freely given confession doesn't necessarily count as new evidence!]
The block who 'fessed up pleaded guilty at the second trial. See here for more details.
--Ng
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Son: Now that you mention it, I may have.
Police: Did they tell you you stay in the basement?
Son: Now that you mention it, they may have.
Police: Good. Now what else can you tell us without us influencing your answers in any way?
Police: (to themselves) we better not mention anything about Sean Sturgeon else we might have to investigate a person we have not already decided did it
news article:
(emphasis added)
"Nina Reiser was last seen at her husband's home on Exeter Drive in the Oakland hills on Sept. 3, when she dropped off the couple's children. She failed to meet her best friend at her house later that evening, authorities said.
Nina Reiser's 2001 Honda Odyssey minivan, with groceries inside, was found Sept. 9 in the city's Thornhill neighborhood. Neighbors first spotted the parked minivan Sept. 5, the day she was supposed to pick up her children at school, police said."
The minivan was 'spotted' Sept 5th? But 'found' on Sept 9th? Groceries inside? When did the reciept show the groceries were purchased? Before she dropped the kids off or after? If it was after, something is fishy. Grocery store surveilance cameras?
Hmmmmmm.
Just my two cents worth.
Everyone is a potential murderer; you just need to know the right buttons to push, or right circumstances to put them in, to make them (allow them?) to kill.
That doesn't mean they're bad people. On the contrary, some of the nicest and most well-balanced people I know, would have zero compunction at all in blowing you away, if you in any way threatened or harmed their families. For that matter, neither would I; my obligation to protect my loved ones is far stronger than my obligation to not harm another human being that I don't know or particularly care about.
I have always found people who claim that they just could not kill, to be oddities. I'm torn between simply believing that they're deluding themselves about their own nature, or accepting that there are people who are just wired so fundamentally differently than everyone I know. I suspect there is a combination of both at work; while some people might actually be just incapable of killing someone else regardless of circumstances, a greater number of people would just like to believe that about themselves, but would probably pull the trigger in the right situation or with the right conditioning. Personally, I have always found realistic introspection to be more useful than wishful self-delusion; I have a pretty good idea of the circumstances under which I'd kill someone else. By beginning from the assumption or knowledge that you could end someone else's life, you can work backwards to the various triggers that would produce that end, and perhaps avoid the situations entirely (if any of the situations are avoidable).
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Eating, sleeping and going to the gym is not exactly living hell.
That's what all the anal rape is for.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Even if you forgot your compass, you can always do this trick if you've got an analogue watch:
This works in the Northern Hemisphere.
Take the watch off your wrist and hold it horizontally.
Point the hour hand at the sun.
Halfway between that and 12 is South.
It's not accurate to one degree, but for getting un-lost, it's close enough.
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BMO
Here in America, most technologically advanced country in the world, we have transcended your silly electronic transfer systems. Instead, we write the amount of money we wish to send on little rectangular pieces of paper, which we then send to the person to whom we'd like to send the funds, who takes it to their bank, who forwards it back to the original person's bank, who transfers the funds electronically. It's quite state-of-the-art, I assure you.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
the DA running around to get the jury pool filled with XFS, JFS, EXT4 and some snarky EXT2 developers...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
The kid must be a Marine.
Live forever, or die trying.
I'm a geek who loves GPS but in a survival situation I would much rather rely on the low tech solution.
I have had extensive training with GPS (civilian and military) and three different types of compasses (normal, prismatic, digital) plus how to read all of them in relation to a map. Based on this I think your implication that it has anything to do with the equipment or the user is wrong or at least side stepping the issue.
The biggest problem with a GPS is that it is prone to failure from all of the elements; to hot, to cold, to much pressure (weight applied) and it dies. As well as the well known issues I know with my nature of being a geek I would priorities the importance of its power cells towards communication devices in the event that I really need rescuing rendering it completely useless anyway.
I started off being a huge fan of GPS over other means when I started doing a lot of camping and bush walking though I quickly (around six months) switched to having a standard $70 silver attached to me at all times when out bush. Don't get me wrong I think people should have both - I just don't think they should always expect that GPS to work. Having some thing you know will always be there and have an acceptable margin of error that you know is far more important, in my opinion, than know where you are down to the centimeter and having no guarantees.
I ate your fish.
Dude, that's not Russian Women.
That's ALL women.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
I'm sure the cops might screw up. But if this guy had drugged her several times, was into 'death yoga', yadda, yadda, yadda, don't you think she'd tell a close friend or family member about this before she told her estranged husband? If a woman I knew disappeared and I knew that about the boyfriend, I'd be all over the cops to check it out, and make sure reporters EVERYWHERE heard about it so that they'd add on the pressure to quadruple check the boyfriends alibi. Why haven't we heard about any of her family or friends telling this in the news? Instead it's only come from Hans, her estranged husband, and suspect in the case...
I certainly haven't seen all the evidence, but from what I've heard so far, it just doesn't look good for Hans.
imagine if it had been Dvorak from PCmag
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
What's on/by rivers?
Bears?
adventure-today.com
With a heart of ice and a head of solid granite, Dvorak is like +20 against cold. He'd just stumble out of the mountains months later with an implausible story about finding Apple's secret underground research facility (where they're developing the top-secret "Vista Ready" iMac) and how RMS, Google's black helicopters, and a troop of Mac fanboyscouts conspired to kill him...
0 1 - just my two bits
According to this article, Hans Reiser had to pay $8,000 in alimony a month to Nina. Nina was getting $96,000 a year for not working!
I don't condone any killing, legal or not, but if she had indeed cheated on him before their divorce and then got that kind of money, it's easy to see how the feeling of having been so completely beaten by someone he loved could have made him desperate.
Something seems broken with California's alimony law.
Or maybe he caught her running ext3.
And only on /. can this be modded +3, Insightful.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Recall the case of Chandra Levy, once an intern working for former Congressman Condit. When she vanished, many people had no problem believing she had been murdered, and thinking up motives Condit might have for doing it, with the most popular being so that she couldn't talk about the affair he had with her. Circumstantial evidence started pouring out, and things were looking very bad for Condit for a while. Condit lost the next election, but was never arrested or charged, and a year later they found Levy's remains, which enabled them to come up with scenarios that happened not to involve Condit at all. Last I recall, the most likely perpetrator is thought to be a particular thug who was in the area at the time.
Maybe Reiser has stronger motives. Maybe the reason no body has been found is that Reiser is too smart to slip up that way. Talk about having a geek reputation come back to haunt someone! If he's so smart, wouldn't he have thought of other ways out of his difficulties? Smart enough to get away with murder (maybe) but not smart enough to think of other actions that would serve his purposes, or realize how just the suspicion of murder would trouble him for years even if it was never pinned on him? Doesn't add up. Maybe Nina went for a jog and some random criminal did it. We don't know. The state arresting Reiser without better evidence is looking like a mistake. Either they're needlessly harassing an innocent, or they're blowing their chance to put the murderer away.
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