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Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife
- sant0sk1 18y agoHans Reiser's life will make a great movie someday. But who should play Hans? Steve Buscemi?
- rewind 18y agoYeah, I love movies about guys who commit murder, lie about it, come clean only to try to save their own ass, and leave their two kids without any parents in the process. I'll be first in line for a ticket, for sure.
- mikkom 18y agoBut this guy also codes a filesystem during the process!
- mrtron 18y agoAnd wrote a filesystem chose by several distros as the default. He was a seriously smart guy - and thats what make the story relative. A lot of smart people have mental illness. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Hemmingway
- helveticaman 18y ago>A lot of smart people have mental illness. How can you question his sanity? Just because he does something unusual doesn't mean he's crazy. I don't question the sanity of really smart people (say, Bobby Fischer or James Watson) because I can't fathom what goes on in their minds. Sure, I'd find Hans Reiser guilty if the evidence warranted it, but accuse him of being insane? That would be arrogant.
- mrtron 18y agoMental illness does mean insanity or crazy. It could be a deep bout of depression that caused him to bury his wife. Regardless of circumstances, it is not a reasonable thing to do.
- ojbyrne 18y agoThis sure made me think of the recent "Don't talk to police" thread. I'm not saying he's innocent or anything, and clearly murder is a bad thing (which sounds trite and insensitive), but it just seems like a really bad move on his part. Maybe it got sold to him as saving his own ass, but it seems like it did the opposite. Being convicted is only part of the process - there's appeals, and appeals, and more appeals. And again, apologies if I sound insensitive. I don't know any of the individuals belonged, and murders are so often in the news that it's easy to discuss them without any real emotion.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoPerhaps the guy really isn't an emotionless robot built entirely of ego -- and, now that his self-defense instinct has exhausted itself, his urge to stop lying, express some entirely authentic and long-suppressed remorse, and save his wife's family and his own children from a lifetime of uncertainty has finally won out. (For further insight into this aspect of the human psyche I recommend Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.) Or, perhaps he's an emotionless robot playing the role of a remorseful human being. If so, I think it's about time. It's not as if Plan A was working out well for anyone. Requiescat in Pace
- martey 18y agoHe is getting a second-degree conviction instead of first-degree. From the article: The maximum sentence Reiser could receive for second-degree murder is 15 years to life. Reiser had faced a term of 25 years to life under his first-degree murder conviction. Considering his sentencing hearing is in a couple of days, I think it makes logical sense.
- ojbyrne 18y agoEither I skipped right over those 2 paragraphs, or it wasn't there when I read the article. It says "Updated at 20:11 PDT" Either way my point has been invalidated.
- akd 18y agoEver tried to make an interesting movie about guys who love their wives, are great fathers, and never do anything bad?
- rewind 18y agoThe sarcasm is because the body isn't even in the morgue and we're talking about entertainment value.
- tptacek 18y agoCapra did OK at it.
- VinzO 18y agoLittle House on the Prairie :-P
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- jimbokun 18y agoNot movies, but the premise to a large percentage of all sit-coms ever made.
- sant0sk1 18y agoBest movie of '07 according to the Academy was No Country For Old Men, a story of a man who goes about flipping coins and killing people with an air gun. Yes, morbid stories make for good movies. Even true ones.
- mrtron 18y agoThat was a fictional movie. The movie was unpredictable with stunning visuals. I found the representation of death and violence in the movie fantastic. It was portrayed as sudden and uneventful, only lasting a split second. /end rant - but to claim the movie was about flipping coins and killing people doesn't do it justice.
- pfedor 18y agoAn older movie by the same authors--"Fargo"--was based on facts and was even better than "No Country for Old Men."
- rms 18y agoI liked There Will Be Blood a lot more -- my favorite movie of the last few years, plus it had a soundtrack by the great Johnny Greenwood. Was I the only one that identified with the main character? I think that's why most people found it a difficult movie.
- izaidi 18y agoYou weren't. Running through my head practically every day: "I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed." I like to think it's mostly cautionary, but, you know. Also, if you can still edit that post, I'd advise taking the "h" out of Jonny Greenwood's name before one of those annoying Radiohead fanatics points out the mistake. :)
- rms 18y ago:) Too late, can't believe I missed that, I am indeed one of those Radiohead fanatics. I actually have extra tickets for the Seattle show (I got my tickets for DC+Cleveland+Philly and Seattle was still available so I got them to ebay) that I would sell for what I paid. Section 101, row 10.
- jm4 18y agoThe guy is a total scum bag and just about the last person anyone needs to make a movie about, but it might be worth it just for the "you're about to experience chaos" line. Classic. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/oakland-califor.html http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/oakland-califor.htm...
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- culley 18y agoI'd see it w/ Steve Buscemi.
- jrockway 18y agoI see this as more of a 1990s-style Law & Order episode. Especially since there were alleged Russian Mob connections to his wife, and they cover that on the show from time to time. (Or did, I have only watched through season 5 ;) I imagine Ben Stone and Reiser wouldn't really get along, which could be amusing.
- thwarted 18y agoI swear Law & Order: Criminal Intent had an episode where a computer programmer murders his wife, but I can't find it right now (and Wikipedia's listing makes it hard to browse by subject).
- tyn 18y agoDoesn't matter much, most important is to have David Lynch direct it.
- nickb 18y agoNo more doubts, folks.
- omouse 18y ago"Officer Roland Holmgren, Oakland police spokesman, said the body has not been identified." Dude, like oh my god, he could have led them to another body that just happened to be there! We just don't know!
- mechanical_fish 18y agoThat would have made such a great plot point for the third Dirk Gently novel. But, alas, Douglas Adams is dead. Damn, now I've made this story even more depressing. Time for bed.
- rbanffy 18y agoWell... It can still be developed into a movie.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoOh, god, this is what I get for not going to bed quickly enough. Touché.
- Xichekolas 18y agoBest part of the whole article: > The issue was "whether Hans would summon up the intestinal fortitude to do this - he did," Du Bois said. Seems to me that if you have the 'intestinal fortitude' to kill someone, you probably don't blink at the thought of showing off the dead body when you have so much to gain by doing so... but bonus points to the lawyer for almost making us think it was a tough decision by his poor client.
- izaidi 18y agoMurder is usually an act of weakness, not courage.
- nailer 18y agoApparently Reiser became confused and thought it was 'f-stab' rather than 'fs-tab'.
- aston 18y agoNow he's fsck'd.
- falsestprophet 18y agoThat said, he is a pretty serious hacker.
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- jrockway 18y agoI'm not sure how to work this into a joke, but I could never get reiser-fsck to ever work properly. So many filesystems lost...
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- xlnt 18y agoNot hacker news? Who cares if he's a programmer; this has nothing to do with that.
- rms 18y agoOh, come on, it is something that many, many people here find very interesting. See the thread about his conviction.
- xlnt 18y agoThat thread is mostly off-topic (ie, stuff that could just as well be on digg). What is the purpose of saying, "oh come on"?
- rms 18y ago>What is the purpose of saying, "oh come on"? It's an interjection of little meaning, I was surprised to hear you call not hacker news on this. It's news. About a rather good hacker. Who killed his wife. Off-topic discussion in a thread doesn't make the submission itself not hacker news. Also, you should check out the digg comments, off-topic comments here don't come close. Sites like Digg start getting the Youtube effect where people post comments for the sake of posting, rather than for the purposes of dicussion.
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- nonne 18y agoi always knew he did it!!!
- jrockway 18y ago"It just doesn't seem right to me that that can happen in America," Dunn said. "I thought the jury had the last say." This is incorrect. The jury determines guilt, not sentencing.
- radu_floricica 18y agoWonder if he'll work on ReiserFS from prison. It's open source, so much more useful for society then breaking rocks.
- mroman 18y agoI am still grimacing after seeing this submission and RTA . . . what an absolute shame the whole thing, how incredibly tragic, it pains me to see this even though it basically happens every day. An innocent woman murdered, a bright man's (whom I also consider to be a fellow member of this tribe so many here belong to - regardless of what he did) life gone down the drain, two kids with no parents, the tribe getting bad press . . . this is simply horrid. I hope she rests in peace wherever she is, I hope he gets help and is rehabilitated, and I hope the kids are in good hands.
- dunk010 18y agoShit, I thought he was innocent.
- mynameishere 18y agoI wasn't really paying attention. Did you guys know this (from wiki): In 1999, while working in Russia, Hans Reiser selected from a mail-order bride catalogue[8], and subsequently married, Nina Sharanova (Нина Шаранова), a Russian-born and trained obstetrician and gynecologist[9] In Russia, there are trained physicians who sign up to be mail-order brides. Can you believe that? I figured they were all crack whores or scammers.
- ph0rque 18y agoI don't know what the situation is like now, but several years ago, one of my farther relatives, a doctor in a senior position, was recieving 700 Rubles a month as her paycheck ($30 today).
- wheels 18y agoWhen I visited Russia in 2002 on the four hour flight back I was sitting next to a girl who was 22, bright, attractive, had just dropped out of her senior year of college studying French and German literature ... and was a mail order bride on the way to be with her new husband. We talked almost the whole way and it took me some time to put together the pieces since she didn't just come out and say it. It was her way out. The logic was that even if things really went to shit that she could put up with it for three years until she had permanent residence and could get divorced if she needed to. It certainly changed my view on the stereotype.
- yan 18y agoReiserFS, the file system with killer performance!