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Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body
jlmcgraw was the first to alert us that Hans Reiser has led police to the location in the Oakland Hills where he buried the body of his wife Nina. (We discussed the rumor that he would do so last month.) SFGate.com reports that remains were recovered but have not yet been identified. Reiser is to be sentenced on Wednesday. CBS5 claims that Reiser made a deal for a reduced sentence, to 15 years, in exchange for revealing the body.
Yes.
The guy was persecuted for being a little strange, which is an outrage. Oh, and he also killed his wife.
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Hans shot first
How very Christian of you.
Jeremy
He buried her in pudding?
This is just one more thing for the 15 year olds who think they're e-badasses because they use Linux to brag about.
"Oh yeah? Who designed your WinBlow$ file system? Just some monopolist? My file system was designed by a murderer. I totally have you beat."
Before, though, there wasn't even any definitive proof anyone had died. I thought that was kind of a prerequisite for charging someone with murder.
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there is nothing more sad then the Truth
...then the Truth what?
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I'm going to hell for laughing at this.
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Comparison of filesystems on Wikipedia
I mean, he knew where the body was buried.
Lucky guess!
Fuck you, ShaunC.
Don't you mean "fsck you?"
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
The correct English idiom is a bit different: the proof of the pudding is in eating. It is interesting to note that the idiom is paradoxical. What proof would remain, if youa ate Nina's body?
This case is all based on circumstantial evidence. I mean, first we're convicting people based on the books they read, and now on the bodies they can find! FREE PAUL REISER!!
Well, no question it's a killer filesystem.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Maybe he was angry with her because she was having an affair. He bought a gun out of anger, but didn't want to kill her. He goes home, to find her with her lover. In a struggle with the lover, the lover the lover wrests the gun from Hans. He's got the gun pointed at Hans, who reveals that his wife has in fact ANOTHER lover. In anger, the lover shoots Nina and flees. Hans has no idea who he was, and Nina dies sadly in his arms. The only way he can avoid blame for the murder (having just legally purchased the gun) is to bury Nina himself. In the end, Hans feels responsible for her death, having driven her away from him due to his obsession with work, and of course, the foolish decision to buy the guy. He sees only too late that he should forgiven her for such a minor human flaw, and if he had, then he would still be with her.
Good thing he was journaling. We can just dismount his wife and restore her to a known-working version... questionmark?!
DATABASE WOW WOW
With things like this coming out, it is going to be much, much harder to find a wonderful woman.
Because they are all dead?
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Was Fabio on the cover of this book?
If, upon discovering the body, Hans said something along the lines of "Holy shit! WTF?! There was actually a body there?!" I'd be more inclined to believe the "lucky guess" story.
If I were separated from my wife and bound by a restraining order, and she was having sex with her new lover IN MY HOUSE, I would probably kill her, too.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." - Bob Dylan
After being out-of-order in court, he spilled the encryptic details about where his wife was stored and from there on, the jury knew he was corrupted. Strangely enough, due to his cooperation, officials didn't even have to raid his home...
You know what though...? inode he was a criminal all along.
There, I'm glad to have gotten that out of my system.
Fact: Everything I say is fiction.
No, part of his punishment should be being forced to maintain a file system that he feels is inferior.
I'm a pro-slavery nazi, you insensitive clod!
she had it coming.
A living person is better than a dead person any day
The Darwin Awards suggest otherwise...
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You can always ask Hans to dig one up for you ...
Fuck you, ShaunC.
Don't you mean "fsck you?"
Man, the guy has a journal.
Debian randomness!
Agree. I think where he went wrong was killing his wife. Also, optimizing for edge cases which rarely appear standard operation...
DATABASE WOW WOW
storage
Remember to enable soft updates before executing this plan.
Luck doesn't work on a deserve-basis. Luck is blind, and with an arbitrary large group of fucking murderers, as many of them will have good luck as those who'll have bad luck. If you wish one fucking murderer bad luck and your wish comes true, statistically another fucking murderer will have good luck.
You're possibly confusing luck with karma?
Lucky guess!
No, he found the location in his journal...
Yes, I remember it well... particularly when he jumped up and shouted:
"It's chowdah! CHOWDAH!! Say it RIGHT!!!"
"I'll kill you-- I'll kill all of you, especially those of you in the jury!!!"
"Slow down, Cowboy! It has been 3 years, 7 months and 26 days since you last successfully posted a comment."
They say a girl should always dress for the man she wants
so why am I laying here thin and bare and gaunt?
It's all because some hacker came and murdered me
So now I'm being dug up so he can cop a plea
I should have gone to free credit report dot com
I could have seen him comin at me like an atom bomb
They monitor your credit and send you email alearts
So you don't end up being used as wormfood in the dirt.
What, too soon?
Oh, great, this has now become a rather grotesque version of Geocaching.
So after all this time, with all the shenanigans that went on, he can recover her body? Talk about a robust journalling algorithm !
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
He is the O .J. Simpson of nerds. We can't believe he's guilty because he's one of us.
"IF I did not do it", a replay
Ohyes oh yes oh yes oh yes
They both reached for the gun!
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
The urge to divide everything into two -- black or white, friend or enemy, capitalism or communism, christian or heathen, disorganized or organized -- is a recognized mental oddity.
In most cases, there is not only a sliding scale (or shades of grey, if you like), but multiple axes.
So there are people who divide everything into two, and those who do not?
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The only way I can see that having a chance in hell is if the instructions to find the body looked like this
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Instead of that, try making ReiserFS NOT a total piece of crap. It sucked, and it always has. Reiser was a huge abusive turd, and so are his fans.
Now THAT's how to start a flamewar. Amateur.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/PatBenatar-CrimesOfPassion.jpg/200px-PatBenatar-CrimesOfPassion.jpg
Crimes of Passion? Hell yeah I'll permit it.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
In most cases, there is not only a sliding scale (or shades of grey, if you like), but multiple axes.
He used axes? I thought he shot her.
There are only two types of people in the world: Those who see gray areas and those who only see black and white.
Assholes, this is a real person with a real family, not some fucking Manga or Anime or video game.
Well when I play "video games" (as you so quaintly put it) I always make sure to imagine that it is a real person with a real family before pulling the trigger!
Hans has a black belt in judo, he'll survive better than another nerd might.
IOW: Occam, meet razor.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Judge: "Why did you kill your wife, and not her lover?"
Defendant: "What would be better? That I killed only my wife, or a dozen other men?"
Stupidity is an equal opportunity striker.
Fellow slashdotter Bill Dog
Hell yeah! I firmly believe Bill Gates killed his wife, despite all evidence, like her still being alive, saying otherwise!
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
No, Hans was so much smarter than everyone else. Now he's going to go to prison for 15-to-life - and lying to the court as Reiser did means his parole hearings aren't going to go well for him, if he even survives 15 years in prison.
So sad. I wonder if they'll make him serve his time in the superblock?
You might be wanting the "Post Anonymously" button there, dude...
Hans has a black belt in judo, he'll survive better than another nerd might.
I'm sure a black belt in judo is the surest way to a gang raping in prison. Come on, it's judo. We're talking about prison.
Should've gone with BeFS. At least the filesystem is indexed and instantly searchable.
The Reiser koan:
Three crazy people set up a bizarre love triangle/business. One murders his wife, the second kills eight others and maybe a ninth, and the third is dead. Who is the more guilty?
Or maybe it should be a joke line:
A hacker, a Russian mail-order bride, and a bisexual serial killer into bondage walk into a bar...
Why this modern obsession with "closure"? It's almost as if
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And it has plenty of experience with being dead and buried, too.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
We can't believe he's guilty because he's one of us.
No he's not one of us, he had a wife. Hand in your geek card on the way out.
Most definitly. I stopped drinking OJ right after the trials...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...it was in lost+found.
.sig: No such file or directory
(sigh) When will people learn? You should NEVER mount something you don't trust anymore. It can really mess up your whole system.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If the glove isn't 64-bit, you must acquit.
I could fork it today and call it VegetableFS.
How about SchiavoFS?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
One of the things Hans and Nina fought over was him letting their son play violent videogames. In conclusion, proprietary software kills.
Free as in beer or free as in speech?
Maybe he was angry with her because she was having an affair. He bought a gun out of anger, but didn't want to kill her. He goes home, to find her with her lover. In a struggle with the lover, the lover the lover wrests the gun from Hans. He's got the gun pointed at Hans, who reveals that his wife has in fact ANOTHER lover. In anger, the lover shoots Nina and flees. Hans has no idea who he was, and Nina dies sadly in his arms. The only way he can avoid blame for the murder (having just legally purchased the gun) is to bury Nina himself. In the end, Hans feels responsible for her death, having driven her away from him due to his obsession with work, and of course, the foolish decision to buy the guy. He sees only too late that he should forgiven her for such a minor human flaw, and if he had, then he would still be with her.
You left out the part where he's tutoring a small-time crook in prison and that crook says he shared a cell with another con who claimed he murdered some computer geek's wife and now the geek is doing time for the murder. Hans would have started helping out the guards with their computer problems, then the warden gets him involved in a lucrative spamming operation that rakes in millions under the table. And after the warden has the tutored con killed, Hans plots his escape through a storm sewer, withdrawing all the profits from the bank and mailing a package to the papers implicating the warden in spam and murder.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
We didn't get it because we don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Most likely because we aren't the kind of guys that go to musicals. You might have better luck in the Apple section.
I've always prefered 867-5309 Jenny Myself
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I'd say bullet-proof it. He might be coming back to take it out next.
...he'll be overconfident and at a disadvantage.
Hans Reiser, overconfident? Nooooo.
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