Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger

Fahrvergnuugen writes "Wired is running a story about how an ex-lover of the missing wife of accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case. While Reiser will still stand trial for the murder, this development will undoubtedly complicate things."

hmmmm

[uberjoe]

Does this mean I don't have to reformat after all?

Death Yoga

[Sloppy]

I am shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that the creepy S&M guy who was into "death yoga" and has now admitted to other murders, is suspected of Nina's murder. I mean, that's just silly. I saw the ELER cartoon, and he wasn't in it.

Re:Reasonable doubt

[Man On Pink Corner]

If your wife's ex-lover is a confessed serial killer, the evidence against you has to be pretty damning for you not to create reasonable doubt.

Well, either that, or she was just into psychos.

That is one confusing intro

[Anonymous Coward]

So Reiser is friends with Darth Helmet?

Re: Bad line wrapping!

[Black Parrot]

This is why you don't put a giant 10-word prepositional phrase between a subject and verb, especially if that phrase ends with something that could plausibly by a subject.

Unless you're writing in German...

Re:hmmmm

[Tackhead]

> Does this mean I don't have to reformat after all?

Nope. Heck, kill -8 is just a floating point exception. It's kill -9 that Hans has to worry about.

On the other hand, the guy making the confession did fsck her...

/does anyone else smell brimstone, or is it just me?

Re: Bad line wrapping!

[SpectreHiro]

Nope, then it'd just be a 1 word prepositional phrase that's 10 words long. ;)

Re:Bad line wrapping!

[solevita]

I tried reading the summary aloud and the kill count almost went up a notch. Short sentences help readers breath.

Reiser's attorney speaks out

[L. VeGas]

"Look law, no Hans."

Re:Bad line wrapping!

[Anonymous Coward]

As a very close and personal friend of the Reiser family (I actually know Hans' father better than Hans himself, but that is besides the point), I find this whole episode showing the absolute worst in humanity on almost every level.

This whole idea of speculating over his innocence or guilt is making me practically throw up each time I see news items here on /. related to this issue. If you have the investigation team equivalent of a D.A. that is going through this with a fine tooth comb, you might be able to intelligently make your own semi-accurate conclusions as to his guilt. Mary Jane dies. For the rest of us, perhaps if we follow this very, very closely, we might be able to see the actual evidence that is presented to the court and make a judgement similar to a jury member.

If you are relying upon what you are reading or hearing from the popular press (even /. in this case) about what has happened, you are relying on deliberate misinformation and partial facts to come to a conclusion. Hardly the best way to come to any sort of judgement.

For myself, I see a very dear and personal friend who is going through a living nightmare in one way or another. A family that is litterally being ripped apart and a couple of kids that through no actions of their own are going to be permanently scarred emotionally over what the judicial system is doing to their family... even their extended family.

This is also in a small way economically affecting me personally, and I wish I had more money to send and help Hans out so he wouldn't have to go through this very drastic step. Mary Jane dies in Spider-Man 3.

At the same time, regardless of what happens, Hans' life in a sense is over and he is beginning something completely new from scratch. By selling the company he is also suggesting that perhaps it is time to move on with some other completely new project or even lifestyle. Mary Jane, having died in Spider-Man 3, has been denied even that sorry chance.

I pray for the day that Hans will no longer be a major news item on /. especially in this context.

MOD PARENT DOWN * SPIDERMAN SPOILERS

[Anonymous Coward]

Motherfucker

Re:just to be clear

[vandan]

I've thought he'd been framed from day one. He had some Department of Defense contracts for developing resier4. I wouldn't put it past them ( or the US administration ) to get bitchy over such a contract. Of course this is highly speculative, but what if, say, they asked him to implement something he didn't feel comfortable with? It's not like these guys have a problem with killing or imprisoning innocent people ( think Guantanimo Bay ). This is how they do business.

Re:Son of a bitch

[roman_mir]

Ok, but which one?

Re:Death Yoga

[Dirtside]

Death yoga? I didn't read TFA, is Dhalsim involved somehow?

Re:Bad line wrapping!

[Iamthefallen]

When I saw this story, I skimmed the first line, then got to the second, which [...] was a bit of a jolt. Then I went back and realized that it was referring to [...] a giant [...] p [...] e [...] n [...] i [...] s

Summarizing like a Slashdot editor is more fun.

Finally!

[TheChromaticOrb]

Finally the court will put it to rest. Did Hans shoot first, or was it the other guy?

Oh, wait... wrong movie.

Turn in your tinfoil hat...

[warrax_666]

Jebus, don't you realize? It was the ALIENS, man! The ALIENS!

muttered "kill -9" and...

[G4from128k]

He probably muttered "kill -9" and the cops thought it was a confession.

Re:just to be clear

[ArsonSmith]

ahhh...........can't.........move........or will think of a dick.........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Re:The bus factor of OpenSOurce

[mfrank]

I'm still running Windows 98 on an old computer; who at Microsoft do I call to get a bug I found fixed???

Re:Wow, what are the odds?

[Opportunist]

Probably the same of two bombs being on one plane. That's why I never travel without one.

But try to discuss the laws of statistics with the ground personnel dimwits at airports...

Re:hmmmm

[Penguinisto]

...true, but did he HUP or NOHUP? If he HUP'd, we're talking serious perversion...

/P

Re:For those of us who don't keep track...

[Dystopian Rebel]

Don't worry about the facts. Hollywood will pick this story up and turn into "Entertainment".

"Nicholas Cage in... HellReiser!"

Re:Ouch

[eMbry00s]

the wife who is confessing to eight other killings

What? But how is that even possible!?

I'm going to bed.

Re:hmmmm

[ez76]

If he couldn't be bothered to clean up blood from his car and to get rid of his books on homicide, how the hell can we trust this guy to free memory on the heap?

Re:Reiser's attorney speaks out

[Duhavid]

Look.

Hans shot first. Case closed.

Too confusing

[hurfy]

I think i will just wait for the Law and Order episode.

Re:I do?

[Darby]

.into the latest, most expensive, least-desirable version of Windows yet, a product that makes ME look enchanting by comparison.

Come on Dude, don't be so hard on yourself.

true, in fact

[commodoresloat]

it just confirms that reiserfs is truly a killer filesystem.

So ....

[taniwha]

you're going to OJ for your next FS?

Re:What are the odds?

[NeoManyon]

Whilst removing the front seat may seem very suspicious under the circumstances it does give you a lot more space. I used to do it sometimes when i had a lot of stuff to shift. Of course i just put the seat in my shed rather than dumping it a few hundred miles away and then setting fire to it, but hey, each to his own.

Re:What are the odds?

[kestasjk]

I'd like to hear the "People bleed, it happens" defense used in court. It might work well if you give a menacing look at the jury when you say "it happens".

Re:hmmmm

[dsfox]

You might as well ask if you can trust someone who doesn't cut his hair and clean his eyeglasses to free memory on the heap.

Re:The bus factor of OpenSOurce

[Anonymous Coward]

it's a different story since a business can hire someone experienced enough to replace the previous developer.

And if they lay everyone who worked on it off and hire a bunch of foreigners, what then? All you're doing is shifting from one set of problems to another.

why isn't that happening with ReiserFS

Good question, it might be that the assumption is that Hans Reiser didn't do it, and will resume working on it. Maybe the assumption is that he did do it, and he'll kill anyone who tries to take the project away from him. Or maybe between improvements on ext3 and development on ext4, all of the resources available for filesystem development is already being consumed. It's not like Lemmings where you can just click on a guy and turn him into a bomb or a filesystem developer.

Too late...

[Roger W Moore]

Wow, how delightfully shallow! If we found out that Newton murdered someone we should all drop newtonian physics!

We already have dropped Newtonian physics. It's Einstein and Schroedinger we have to worry about now...although rumour has it that Schroedinger may have killed his cat.

Re:The bus factor of OpenSOurce

[Anonymous Coward]

Sales

Re:wtf?

[proverbialcow]

From here on, Reiser is erased.

Yeah, but he's still recoverable even though you improperly shut him down.

Re:Bad line wrapping!

[krelian]

Then I went back and realized that it was referring to his wife's ex-lover, not to Reiser himself.

Well that's a relief.

Re:just to be clear

[ShakaUVM]

Actually the default DOD response to cases like that is to throw more money at it, not to kill the guy's wife and set up an elaborate frame-job.

Of course, maybe they just wanted to mix it up a bit for variety, who knows?

Holy crap

[Plutonite]

I, for one, am amused. I was not familiar with the ex-lover before: EIGHT MURDERS? And he's not really sure about number nine, because y'know, it was just another murder and he doesn't pay much attention to these things?

If Reiser really is the killer after this miracle, it will be the funniest murder ever(not that they're funny, but just saying). Bitch cheats on husband with a serial killer/psychopath. Leaves psycho but geek husband finds out anyway, geek husband reads TFM on homicide and kills wife before psycho gets to her, psycho infuriated to the degree of staunchly defending himself on this one murder (out of he doesn't know how many) in order to get back at husband for killing the woman first.

I hope Newton was a murderer!

[bussdriver]

I'm so sick of gravity.

Do we really need to know the rate of change? duh, its changin or its not.

Re:So ....

[Mr2cents]

OJFS sucks. I constantly encounter error messages like "I don't say I saved your file, but if I stored it, it would be called 'readme.txt'".

Re:hmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know how things work in your town but the cops do not plant the evidence here, they just smoke it:)

Re:just to be clear

[iGN97]

If you drop Newtonian Physics it'll be the last thing you drop.

Re:So ....

[hey!]

But it implements the Johnny Cochrane cache management scheme: if it doesn't fit you must commit.

Re:So ....

[renegadesx]

So thats why all my hardlinks point to a JPEG of cewbacca!!

Re: Bad line wrapping!

[Jesus_666]

Nope, then it'd just be a 1 word prepositional phrase that's 10 words long. ;)

It'd be a one word propositional phrase that would be one word long. It's you English speakers who put those weird spaces everywhere in compounds. Take, for example, "one word propositional phrase". That's four words. If we write "onewordprepositionalphrase" we only have one word and we saved three characters (and yes, "Einwortpräpositionalphrase" would be a correct and meaningful German compound).

So would you guys please stop wasting enormous amounts of bandwidth and remove those spaces from your compounds? We don't want our tubes to get clogged by all those 0x20s, do we?

Re:Free Hans Reiser

[Bloke down the pub]

I'm starting the "Free Hans Reiser" movement.

Is that free like speech, or free like beer?