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Hans Reiser Interview from Prison

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that-paris-is-out dept.

JLester writes "Wired Magazine has an interview this month with Hans Reiser (of the ReiserFS journaling file system for Linux) from prison. It contains more details about the murder case against him. Some of the questions still go unanswered though."

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  1. obHumor by Megaweapon · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Reiser's case, a critical piece of data -- the location of Nina Reiser -- has gone missing.

    It should be in the journal somewhere.

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    1. Re:obHumor by D_Gr8_BoB · · Score: 2, Funny

      Also, Linux programmers don't go to prison, they just get put in a chroot jail.

    2. Re:obHumor by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe we should have a bit more respect this time.
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    3. Re:obHumor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your post is excellent except for two things:

      1) The government supported development of ResierFS.
      2) You are a moron.

    4. Re:obHumor by CommunistHamster · · Score: 5, Funny

      When Linus dies? I think you mean "if".

    5. Re:obHumor by Plutonite · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've listened to Hans over the years in lkml. He's an odd one. Really? Her boyfriend (the guy she cheated on him with) confessed to killing 8 people and might have killed 9, but he's not really sure. I'm not kidding, either. That's a little "odd" too isn't it? Usually people keep count of the murders they commit, for the sake of easy confessions at least..
    6. Re:obHumor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Everyone knows Linus will die by being hit by a bus.

      Then I can tell you exactly who will kill him, because only one person I know of is training to be capable of throwing a bus at somebody. He's been on a chair-throwing regimen for years. I hear we will soon upgrade to refrigerators.

    7. Re:obHumor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You are quite possibly the only person on Slashdot (Or at least, the only person who posts under their real name) who has a personal connection to Hans & Nina Reiser.
      <obConspiracy>So, he's a suspect?</obConspiracy>
  2. Juice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has he been in touch with the Juice to discuss strategy? Afterwards, they can go search golf courses for the real killers.

  3. unanswered questions... by Speare · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some of the questions still go unanswered though.
    "Hans, on line 934 of journalcache.c, is that preincrement of bufptr really supposed to be a postincrement?"
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  4. Re:if i did it, here's how it happened by superid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If I coded it, here's how I coded it"

  5. Re:If OJ can get away with it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... why can't Heiser? Well, it seems he is getting away with it, and blaming it on Reiser
  6. Choice bits by antime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reiser is worried that Sturgeon is trying to teach Rory and Niorline that pain can be fun and is furious when Sturgeon gives them what Reiser refers to in a sworn court filing as "gender confused alternative sexuality dolls."
    Is that what they call Teletubbies these days?
  7. Re:if i did it, here's how it happened by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    'R' is for Reiser!

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  8. Aren't there any other.... by niceone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aren't there any other open source author's facing major criminal charges? All we get is Hans, Hans, Hans. If not it seems Microsoft's Black Ops. Dept.* has missed an opportunity.


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    1. Re:Aren't there any other.... by Intron · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm hoping for public execution of the authors of KDE sound system (motto: making Linux a quieter place), but so far no luck.

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  9. No, not teletubbies by WindBourne · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a guiliani doll.

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  10. Always with the false dichotomy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if you believe it's better to send innocent people to jail than let guilty people go free.

    Why can't we do both?

    I don't know. Maybe I'm just an idealist dreamer.

  11. He *may* have done it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Posting cowardly for this one:

    When first heard the news about Nina missing I did a casework on her (check on the Silva Method for what casework is), what I got back is that she was killed by Hans and she is buried in some backyard, the yard is in some sort of downslope, no much grass, with tall trees behind.

    Don't take this one for granted, I haven't practiced enough of this psychic stuff to be sure about this.

    1. Re:He *may* have done it by StressGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't take this one for granted, I haven't practiced enough of this psychic stuff to be sure about this.

      'preciate the heads-up

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    2. Re:He *may* have done it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Posting cowardly for this one:... I haven't practiced enough of this psychic stuff to be sure about this.

      I can't think why you wouldn't want to post that under your name. But I am sorry to say that your psychic vision was wrong. According to my own vision, Nina was actually abducted by a cyborg L. Ron Hubbard with the help of some zombie creationists. She is even now living in an alternate Universe where an evil (beardless) Richard M. Stallman is CEO of Microsoft, Uri Geller bends knives instead of spoons, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster is worshipped by more than a billion Catholics. I told the police about this, but they didn't believe me.

  12. Hans shot first by bioglaze · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hans shot first, so all he can do is to pray there'll be special edition where he doesn't.

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