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Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dark-days-almost-at-an-end dept.

dlgeek writes "The story of Hans Reiser is well known to all Slashdotters by now. Some still placed doubts about the conviction, stating that he might be innocent. It now seems that all doubt has been quelled, since Alameda County District Attorney Thomas Orloff has revealed that Hans Reiser will disclose the location of Nina's body for a reduced sentence. The deal is not yet finalized, though. 'There's been some overtures,' Orloff said, 'But everything is in its preliminary stage.' The deal would reduce his conviction from first degree to second degree murder. In addition, an anonymous source close to the situation said that 'the only real leverage he has is if he can provide a body. He really doesn't have any options left. Even if he won a retrial somehow, he'd likely be convicted.'"

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  1. World's Greatest Detective by alcmaeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    BS. This doesn't mean he did it. It means he is the World's Greatest Detective. He's Batman!

    1. Re:World's Greatest Detective by jo42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      OJ did it!

    2. Re:World's Greatest Detective by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, sure, blame it on the black guy. That's what they always do.

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    3. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Slashdot+Suxxors · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must be new here.

    4. Re:World's Greatest Detective by clam666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I hope this finally serves as a "wake up call" for Linux lickers and lovers that using Linux does increase chances of violence and murder. For too long now Linux lovers have accused Microsoft of tomfoolery, when Microsoft has only delivered wholesome, moral, and radidly patched products.

      Perhaps now they'll finally start listening to the studies that Linux and open-source leads to genital herpes and PWNING your wife with a .45 and a shovel.

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    5. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Skrapion · · Score: 5, Funny

      Are seven-digit users allowed to use that meme?

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    6. Re:World's Greatest Detective by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, sure, blame it on the black guy. That's what they always do.

      you aren't keeping current, are you? the moslems are the new 'black guys'. everyone just moved up one peg.

      isn't america great?

      (ob disc: 'mind of mencia' joke. you really need to hear him tell it.)

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    7. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Directrix1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      All coding and no play makes Hans a dull boy.
      All coding and no play makes Hans a dull boy.

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    8. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Fweeky · · Score: 5, Funny

      He doesn't know where he is, but he's got a lot of experience in building b-trees to locate things in sublinear time; how difficult can it be?

    9. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Adriax · · Score: 5, Funny

      I burn copies of linux all the time.

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    10. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      (ob disc: 'mind of mencia' joke. you really need to hear him tell it.)
      Nah... Besides, I probably already heard it from someone else first...
    11. Re:World's Greatest Detective by paintswithcolour · · Score: 5, Funny
      Exactly Reiser doesn't have to say he killed his wife...he just needs to argue that IF he killed her, this is where he would have hidden the body.

      It's mere coincidence that the actual killer thought the same way.

    12. Re:World's Greatest Detective by BEI01 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I guess Hans really did shoot first.

    13. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Neph · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was going to make a joke but I need to chase some kids off my lawn.

    14. Re:World's Greatest Detective by Erbo · · Score: 5, Funny

      You both are a bunch of steenkin' n00bs. Now get off my lawn. :-)

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    15. Re:World's Greatest Detective by lars · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's spelled "nOOb", nOOb. Back when I joined we had to use smoke signals. Go ahead and try making a puff look like an "e" or a "w".

    16. Re:World's Greatest Detective by cixelsyd · · Score: 5, Funny

      Get off my lawn!

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  2. Got any Line? by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great comic strip who didnt believe him HERE.

    Got any lime?

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  3. The Anastasia mail order bride ad by edittard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else consider the Anastasia advert to be in bad taste, given the context of the story?

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  4. Re:*sigh* by hostyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    wikipedia already confirms it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_file_systems&oldid=209063556#Features

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  5. I would really like to know by Scholasticus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean that some time soon Richard Stallman is going to tell us where the HURD kernel is?

  6. ReiserFS Undelete Option Shown by cryptodan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reiser shows off his new methods of undeleting a file and recovering it.

  7. Re:*sigh* by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly, I don't see how this invalidates his work. Surely the code didn't drive him to commit murder.
    Are you sure? Have you ever looked at that source? Hell, I almost murdered my wife after spending 15 minutes reading it, never mind trying to write the code!

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  8. Re:*sigh* by Frekko · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suggest KillerFS!

  9. Re:*sigh* by Bootle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that he confessed, I'm sure he's guilty. Wow, glad to know you're on the case there Matlock!
  10. Re:*sigh* by FictionPimp · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Linus murders, it's obviously for the good of all of us. Just accept it.

  11. Re:*sigh* by Aneurysm · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is of course possible that the file system is riddled with places where the evil bit has been secretly turned on.

  12. Re:*sigh* by fyoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus would never murder anyone. He'd get his ninja wife to do it.

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  13. Re:Name change by Se7enLC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to mention the usage:

    mount /dev/hda1 -t nina
    fsck.nina /dev/hda1

    the joke goes on and on...

  14. Re:Snarky comments by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, we must never joke about tragedy.

    Have you ever considered that some people might use humor as compensation mechanism to stay sane in an insane world? You may want to stay somber for your own mental health, and that's fine, but have some tolerance for people who want to stay upbeat.

    NASA stands for "needs another seven astronauts", btw.

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