Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body

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.'"

World's Greatest Detective

[alcmaeon]

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

Who said Reiser doesn't support robust recovery?

[Anonymous Coward]

Weeks ago, there wasn't even a known body!

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[zwei2stein]

Well, you'd better hurry tell this to Dexter...

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[jo42]

OJ did it!

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Slimee]

Like omg! Linux is run by murders!! Down with Linux! Down with open source! End the murderous rampage and burn your copy of Linux!

Got any Line?

[Creepy Crawler]

Great comic strip who didnt believe him HERE [geekz.co.uk].

Got any lime?

The Anastasia mail order bride ad

[edittard]

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

Re:*sigh*

[hostyle]

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

Re:Who said Reiser doesn't support robust recovery

[JonathanR]

Yeah, but by now, I reckon they'll only find a few bits.

I would really like to know

[Scholasticus]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[morgan_greywolf]

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

ReiserFS Undelete Option Shown

[cryptodan]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[elrous0]

I hear "Some Puerto Rican Guy" did it.

Re:*sigh*

[morgan_greywolf]

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!

Re:*sigh*

[Frekko]

I suggest KillerFS!

Obligatory awful pun:

[jockeys]

hopefully he journaled the location of the body.

Re:*sigh*

[somersault]

Heisenberg also worked for the Nazi's and attempted to build a Nuclear bomb. That one however is debatable.

Has anyone ever done a probability distribution for the options?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Slashdot Suxxors]

You must be new here.

Re:*sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

Please mod this guy +1 Bad taste.

Re:*sigh*

[Bootle]

Now that he confessed, I'm sure he's guilty.

Wow, glad to know you're on the case there Matlock!

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[FoolsGold]

If the Journal doesn't fit, you must acquit!

Re:*sigh*

[FictionPimp]

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

Re:*sigh*

[Aneurysm]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[clam666]

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.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Skrapion]

Are seven-digit users allowed to use that meme?

I know where it is!

[Pienjo]

It's in /lost+found.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[TheGratefulNet]

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.)

Re:*sigh*

[jimicus]

The best part of that joke? The wiki entry is still accurate.

Not really. He only murdered his own wife.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Directrix1]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Fweeky]

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?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Adriax]

I burn copies of linux all the time.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Anonymous Coward]

(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...

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[paintswithcolour]

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.

Re:*sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

The penguin he had an incident with has not been seen in years.
I have my own theories on what happened.

Re:*sigh*

[Gilmoure]

With a little marketing spin, it could become very popular.

KillerFS?

FearTheGeekFS?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[afidel]

Why not, my UID is halfway through the 6 digits and I've been here since about 3 months after the site started. For the longest time there was no real reason to sign up for an account. It wasn't till they allowed you to filter John Katz that I bothered =)

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[dgatwood]

Are seven-digit users allowed to use that meme?

No. You must be new here. :-)

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[GAVollink]

True enough... If it weren't for newbies we'd have nobody to pick on. ;-)

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[grub]

I was going to make a joke but then realized you're an old timer... :P

Re:*sigh*

[dgatwood]

Yeah, while we were initially concerned he might have been a Nazi, when we tried to test that theory, as soon as we measured his rate of allegiance, his position became uncertain....

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[BEI01]

I guess Hans really did shoot first.

Re:*sigh*

[ja]

It doesn't say he will. The judge is just assuming that Hans will do that to reduce the sentence.

Exactly, and if he "won't", this will only prove that he really is wicked and must be burned!

Re:The Anastasia mail order bride ad

[nfk]

Well, I have always felt insulted by the Anastasia ad, given the geekiness of the Slashdot crowd. We don't order them, we build our own.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[sconeu]

But, in a post-JonKatz world, can we really afford to get a UID just to filter JonKatz?

Re:*sigh*

[fyoder]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Neph]

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

Re:Where is the Corpus Delicti?

[mangu]

I think you voice the fears of someone who is younger. As you get older, you get a better sense of who is sincere and who has something to hide and I would probably think the juror's judgement is ok. The human mind is a pretty darned good judge of character, if you listen to it.

Just to show you how faulty that judgement can be, I'm 51 years old. I have enough experience to know that very often those people who think themselves a "pretty darned good judge of character" aren't that good as they think.

Re:Name change

[Se7enLC]

Not to mention the usage:

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

the joke goes on and on...

Re:Snarky comments

[MightyYar]

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.

Re:*sigh*

[citog]

You need to update to the latest version in CVS ..

Oblig. User Friendly

[Sentry21]

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.

Linux is bad juju [userfriendly.org]

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[A nonymous Coward]

"Newbie"? You calling someone "newbie"?!? That's rich.

(Let's see if we can get Taco to come in here eventually.)

No way!

[Mr. Underbridge]

They should at least rename it to try to distance the software as much as possible from its creator....

Nah. I may be a dorky white guy who's never been in a real fight, but now that I'm using a murderer's filesystem I feel, like, totally gangsta.

Don't take that away from me.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Just Some Guy]

Newb.

waits for it...

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[sgentry6]

find / -type body -name '.*' | grep -i nina
/usr/home/.woods/.nina-body

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Re:Name change

[Prien715]

I didn't know you were into necrophilia;)

Ad on the /. page...

[hiryuu]

Am I the only one who got the inline Flash ad image for a Russian dating service on this /. comments page, and who found it somewhere between distasteful and darkly humorous?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Erbo]

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

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Big Jason]

Poser.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[lars]

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".

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Kartoffel]

Ah yes, the Katz filter. One of the benefits of early membership :)

Re:*sigh*

[93 Escort Wagon]

Our German scientists were better than the Russian's German scientists.

Certainly better fed, anyway.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[cixelsyd]

Get off my lawn!

Re:Nerds and Geeks

[StormReaver]

"We spend so much intellectual focus on concrete matters that the ambiguities and unsolvable problems of relationships seem almost alien and impossible with which to cope."

Speak for yourself. I'm good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Re:*sigh*

[Gilmoure]

Werewolf?

                There. Wolf. There. Castle?

Why are you talking that way?

                  Thought you wanted to. I'm easy.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[mollymoo]

A six-digit UID might have been here for nine years. Which is probably long enough to qualify. There's a lot of variation in the six-figures though, so we do need a cutoff. Let's say anyone with a UID over 202722 is a noob.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[TheSpoom]

Hans Reiser couldn't have done it, because he lives on the planet Endor. But humans are from the planet Earth! Does this make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Reiser lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[wurp]

It's nice of you to let the guy who signed up after you slide!

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Owyn]

Hah.

The only reason I post any more is to join in on these UID threads...

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Pathwalker]

They are amusing when they pop up from time to time.

Re:The Anastasia mail order bride ad

[Actually, I do RTFA]

So it's like those 3D printers we keep hearing about?

Nah, these really exist and can completely reproduce. Just most /.'ers will find it easier to aquire a 3D printer.

Re:*sigh*

[ElMiguel]

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

... except the ones who are dead.

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[Mark J Tilford]

Darned Whippersnappers!

Re:*sigh*

[Anonymous Coward]

And when you send your data to /dev/null it fucking stays there and doesn't come back.

Re:*sigh*

[salahx]

Yeah it needs a name that detracts from murder. How about the "Open Journled File System?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[DeathElk]

Can I please mow your lawn?

Re:We don't need to imagine.

[RedOctober]

Tycho Brahms? Are you sure it wasn't Johannes Brahe?

Re:World's Greatest Detective

[pez]

meept!