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- jiqiren, on 08/29/2008, -4/+78"Finally, Reiser said he admired the district attorney and the police for their skill and dedication. "
What a jackass... He basically says, "good game" to the DA and police! Like he lost a game of Risk or Scrabble... - inactive, on 08/30/2008, -3/+63OMG
A Linux user with a wife? - Paranormalized, on 08/30/2008, -1/+52It's not surprising, if you're full of yourself it's a lot easier to think of the guys who busted you as brilliant than it is to accept that you're not really that much smarter than everyone else.
- paulmer2003, on 08/30/2008, -0/+47What's with so many people thinking he isn't guilty?
HE ***** LEAD THEM TO HER BODY.
That is all. - binaryloop, on 08/30/2008, -1/+44Yeah. And the story said he: "first punched her in the mouth" and then strangled her. She was probably trying to install some nonstandard kernel patches.
- RoboDonut, on 08/29/2008, -7/+49"Linux guru and convicted murderer"
Wow. That's pretty blunt.
I think it would have been more accurate to call him a "filesystem guru" or something. He wasn't really a core kernel developer or anything, at least not as far as I can tell. - diggdiggdug, on 08/30/2008, -1/+40He must do a minimum of 15 years before he can be considered for parole.
- kthoma22, on 08/30/2008, -0/+38"Did you kill her?"
"I'm not going to tell you"
"Sudo Did you kill her?"
"Dam yes I did" - RoboDonut, on 08/29/2008, -1/+38You're going to turn a murder investigation into an operating system flamewar?
- diggdiggdug, on 08/30/2008, -3/+36For a smart guy he is really dumb.
It is hilarious that he thinks that 15 to life is different than the 25 to life that he was facing had he not confessed. The DA made the offer that if he confessed after the conviction that he could get 15 to life.
He already lied under oath and stated he did not commit this murder. One of the worst things a criminal can do under oath is lie. The court will remember that he lied and take this into consideration when they are considering parole and he will be denied. He'll do 25 and more before he is seriously considered for parole.
And even funnier he wants to have access to a computer to continue his work and to help to provide support for his children. He has a snowballs chance in hell at that plan. - josepablos, on 08/30/2008, -0/+31He need a open-jail system!
- sirhomer, on 08/30/2008, -2/+28Fortunately there are plenty of other good filesystems not made by convicted murderers.
- sparf, on 08/30/2008, -0/+26http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronocdh/2651155110/si ...
- benologist, on 08/30/2008, -0/+21Not anymore.
- JoshuaGross, on 08/30/2008, -1/+21I wish that Reiser's murder was separated more from his programming more. Even on Slashdot, I felt like some users were supporting him /just/ because he was a fellow programmer. That bothers me.
- smotpoker, on 08/30/2008, -0/+20"And even funnier he wants to have access to a computer to continue his work and to help to provide support for his children."
ROFL, HE WANTS TO SUPPORT HIS KIDS, HAHAHA, SO FUNNY, ROFLMAOLOLOCOPTOR
"He has a snowballs chance in hell at that plan."
Probably true, though it is sad. Many imprisoned people wish to better themselves or contribute to their families or society while incarcerated. Instead, most facilities provide little or no means for this so we not only force them to rely on tax dollars but their families as well.
That's ok though, at least you are amused. - BugMeNot2, on 08/30/2008, -0/+19This is Digg.
- inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+15http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparis ...
Also, if you look at the edit history, you can see that people kept bringing that change back. It is in pretty bad taste, but I admittedly still find it somewhat amusing. - slvrbullet87, on 08/30/2008, -2/+16I am happy he is spending 15 years or more in prison... if you strangle your wife and bury her in the middle of no where you deserve what ever you get
- serenityflexed, on 08/30/2008, -5/+19It sounds horribly geeky, I know, but in this case logic is irrelevant:
if you're planning to kill your wife, then you're planning to kill your wife!
And I don't think I'm the only person here that thinks his punishment should reflect that.
All people clearly experience anger or jealousy at some time, but that doesn't mean they now have kill-spouse-when-they-divorce-you genes, or suggest that they ever have had.
Personally, I hope he rots away. - KibibyteBrain, on 08/30/2008, -0/+13You can't really think that way. Many good things we have today have blood on their hands, from the ethics used in starting the research that developed into modern medicine all the way to modern technologies we use all the time. Would you think twice about using a crypto algorithm knowing that the math behind it would not have been developed as quickly if it weren't for the horrors of WWII? There are many places where this can go. History is important, but shouldn't distract from the good things offer independent of their past.
ReiserFS is fine, if not really a product with many mainstream applications these days. Plus, I'm sure other FOSS projects like Linux have had so many developers over the years that some of them have been involved in ethical issues of their own. - DrunkenPirate34, on 08/30/2008, -2/+15Exactly, reiserFS isn't really used by major distro's anymore (Default anyways, its mostly ext3), hes not Linus Torvald or anything.
- bot001220, on 08/30/2008, -1/+14Linux nerds, though... they get beat up in HIGH SCHOOL. Imagine what they'll do to him in prison.
- bariswheel, on 08/30/2008, -0/+13Sigh. What a tragic story...I shook this guy's hand at a Linux conference. Not sure what to think of that or if there is anything to say...that is all.
- bxblox, on 08/30/2008, -0/+13Let it go man... he did it.
- JeremyGiberson, on 08/30/2008, -1/+13Interesting, I must have missed the man page entry on the prison sentence option for the command kill.
Lets this be a lesson in command misuse for those of you considering resorting to "kill -9 *wife" to end those pesky stuck nagging_wife processes.
I may have made myself sick with this one. - smotpoker, on 08/30/2008, -0/+11I was not speaking of him specifically. See where it says "Many imprisoned people" and the "or"s?
However, it can be argued that learning/striving/working betters anyone in some fashion or another and it is sad that many people who get incarcerated are denied the opportunity even if they or their families are willing to finance it.
Most of society are as guilty as true criminals for refusing to see or admit that simple actions often affect many people and that positive influences/motivations/goals really can make an impact. They forget that negative actions tend to produce negative results that reverberate through anyone connected to the intended target.
Do you honestly not see how being able to support yourself, your own kids or contribute to society might help improve your disposition or make you have a less cynical outlook on life/people/society? Is it not possible that forcing a negative perspective or refusing to let him contribute to his family might do just a little bit more than make him suffer for his crime? Is it *really* better for him or anyone he ever meets if he sits in a cell 22 hrs per day working out and hanging out with other criminals? - DrunkenPirate34, on 08/30/2008, -0/+11You shook his hand because he was a "Linux guru" not because he was a murderer. Appreciate that you got to meat a mind worth meeting, even if he was a little ***** up.
- sparf, on 08/30/2008, -0/+11"so who gives a ***** about telling lies"
I don't have the time or patience to point out how incredibly flawed your world view is.
But go ahead and enjoy being in the majority. - autologica, on 08/30/2008, -0/+10mmm. I remember using ReiserFS as my filesystem before. Then I switched over to ext3.
I think most people will remember him as a "linux guru" because his filesystem was at one point a cool alternative (I mean, he did write the first JFS for linux!), and even the default on some distros of linux. Also, keep in mind that the same people who call him a "linux guru" probably would call -any- major contributor to linux a guru, because *nix is still largely an unfamiliar OS. - somesthetic, on 08/30/2008, -1/+11what if you get cake and ice cream?
- Stevethegreat, on 08/30/2008, -0/+10People kill, that's non-news, it just happened to be a linux guru this time.
Chimps are incredibly violent, we have no reason to believe that's -also- not our natural condition, in fact historic and even archaeological records show exactly that, people were killing each other for millions of years. The very reason that we have so few people do it anymore although our genome is not that much different from our ancestors should make us proud. In primitive tribes there was at least 50% chance to die in another man's hand, the contemporary figure is less than 0.1%, this guy is the exception....
Erik the Red -1000 years ago- killed his neighbors and he was regarded -just- a hassle nothing to rip off you clothes for. It's commendable that we don't tolerate such behaviors anymore. - inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9"Coming this winter... The murder that will change your harddrive, Forever... Kernel Panic: The Rieser Story"
- amdforever, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9Win
- bxblox, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9...even though people often get out before the minimum for "good behavior", work programs and such. Not murderers though... they'll be in there a long long time if the case is ever in the papers.
- niznik, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9Don't worry, thinking is overrated - google knows all. That is why I love the iphone, I appear in front of my colleagues to have towering intellect, if also a weak bladder.
- smotpoker, on 08/30/2008, -0/+9Parole boards care... but mostly just when they are interviewing I think, not so much about while they were on trial.
- mickstephenson, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8I think that punishment would qualify as cruel and unusual
- Ramble, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8Not even operating systems, the guy worked on filesystems for God's sake.
- SadMartigan, on 11/25/2008, -0/+8I am the only one who reads that as "fan-bwah" ?
- allanak, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8macmini:~ allanak$ mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) - DrunkenPirate34, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8I wouldn't consider him a zealot, he just programmed a FS...
- KibibyteBrain, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8I can't even imagine what twisted morality leads you to conclude that murder is an acceptable response to alleged cheating...or anything.
- nemo001, on 08/30/2008, -1/+8I hope this won't delay Reiser-5. Damn.
- Ebulating, on 08/30/2008, -1/+8Few people know that the Apollo program was headed by an ex-nazi rocket scientist. Our entire space program was based on nazi rocket technology.
- andycr512, on 08/30/2008, -3/+10Considering he met her on a trip to Russia to get programmers to work on ReiserFS, I would feel a little odd using it, considering she would not have died if it weren't for ResierFS...
Then again, it probably would have been a different woman that died then; one from the United States. Who knows. - rutia, on 08/30/2008, -6/+13Uh...excuse me, what does "15-to-life" mean?
- goerg, on 08/30/2008, -2/+9sounds kinda gentleman...
- dtfinch, on 08/30/2008, -0/+7He once replied to a comment I made on Slashdot.
- andycr512, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6Yeah. It won't stop me from using it, but it's weird in the "someone died in the house you just bought" kind of way.
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