Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
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Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
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He could have likely gotten away with it He had a plea deal offer for not much more than time served so he even had a definite option to a form of getting away with it.
Why didn't he take it? It's pretty much the best what murderer on trial can hope for. ... then again, if he was reasonable he'd probably never commit murder.
He probably didn't take the deal because it would have meant he would never see his children again.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't think the murder itself was premeditated, but he did treat the event with a sort of self-serving callousness that gave the perception that he did not care about Nina's life beyond how it affected his.
Elsewhere in this thread (or maybe it was another thread I followed on it), didn't someone mention he suspiciously left his phone at home the day he committed the murder, whereas he would normally have the phone with him? Seems like it was probably premeditated to me if so
one funny thing is when Nina disappeared, everyone she knew called her cell phone... except for Hans, who knew there was no way she would answer and probably didn't want to waste the minutes (this was in the days before common infinite minutes cell plans)
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#464I don't know if ending another human's life leaves any possibility of redemption for a person, but reading this I still empathize with the sense of loss and powerlessness that emanate from this letter.
I spent 10 years in jail. For a large part of that I socialized mainly with those who had committed murder. Some had committed more than one. Most of the murderers I met are some of the nicest people I ever met (if you can temporarily disregard their crime). People are not defined by their worst mistake. I am in very regular contact with many of them as they work their way through the system. Some of them have life s…
I hope you make friends with a non murderer one day.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#465Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect many are aware of this but for those uninformed: Reiser committed premeditated murder of his (ex?)wife Nina around 2006 and hid her body so well they could not find her. He made his children think either that their mother abandoned them. He had thought without a body he could not be charged and convicted. I believe he waited until it was apparent he would lose the trial and then plead down so that they coul…
Source on premeditated? Everything I saw made it look like it was spontaneous (and then he put a lot of work and some poor planning into trying to hide it). I could obviously be wrong, I didn't really spend that much time on it. (Note: I know he was initially found guilty of first degree murder but it appears that first degree murder doesn't necessarily require premeditation.)
I think he planned it.
* He testified on the stand that Nina was a terrible person and a danger to their children. A bold strategy when you're on trial for murdering your wife.
* He was angry that Nina preferred that one of his sons not play violent video games like Grand Theft Auto, because he believed his son was special and might learn something about how violence really works.
* Right before he was arrested, he handed the hard drives from his computer to his lawyer. His lawyer gave the drives to the court about 3/4 through the trial. The judge was extremely displeased. The court had the county's forensic investigators go through the drives. The drives were formatted with NTFS, NOT ReiserFS. One insane email chain discovered in it was Nina mailing Hans about the logistics of planning for new clothes and school supplies for the 2 kids for the upcoming new school year, Hans response was "It is Moscow 1942, you are the Germans, I will prevail".
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but normally you have a fairly high bar to cross before you would resort to such an act, and it would be in the context of self defense or something equivalent. To kill your wife in a premeditated manner is not something most humans can do, even given the 'right' circumstances, most people would resolve a conflict at that level in a different way.
you don't know his emotional state, he could have very well passed that high bar internally. From my recollection, his wife was sleeping with another man, or there was some conflict between the two that was related to another man who I _think_ was supposed to be a friend to them both. it's been a while, but the point remains, he very well could have been in a state that allowed him to "pass that bar".
Hans and Nina divorced in 2004.
Hans murdered Nina in 2006.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
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Reiser himself is on the record as stating that he killed her because he was protecting his children. Whether that passes that bar or not I'll leave up to you but for me it rules out that this was a 'heat of the moment' thing. In my opinion he knew full well what he was doing, he understood that his kids would move to Russia and be raised there (she got sole custody) and this was his way of putting a stop to that.
Kids taken to Russia in 2006? He very well may have saved their lives. What a fucked up mother, they may have been borscht soup in a trench in Ukrain by now had she lived .
Hans, Nina, and their children lived in the Bay Area.
Before getting murdered, Nina was about to start a job with the City and County of San Francisco, involving the medical care of Russian speaking residents.
The Reiser children moved to Petersburg, Russia, because Nina's parents were awarded custody of the children, since Nina is dead and Hans will be in jail possibly forever.
You're really misinterpreting the timeline of events. What software industry are you involved in, so I can be very afraid of anything you may be involved in writing?
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
What sentence of 3 years are you talking about? The judge offered (and prosecutors agreed to) a plea guilty of second-degree murder (down from the first degree murder he was convicted of) if he revealed the location of the body and gave closure to her Nina’s children and family. He got 15 to life, the maximum for second-degree murder, and his first request for parole was rejected so he’s doing at least 20 for now.
Remarkable. Would it really have been 3 years if he'd accepted? That seems far too low. On the other hand, the first degree homicide seems absurd given the evidence. Did they just give him that because he refused to cooperate, and not because it was actually an accurate verdict?
> Would it really have been 3 years if he'd accepted? That seems far too low.
The prosecution offered the deal because historically convicting someone of murder when you can't find the body is nearly impossible. But Hans found a way!
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#469A few things that stuck out to me. SuSE supposedly failed. I don't know who told him that. He might have expected it to be a RedHat or Ubuntu by now, which it isn't. But failed is very black and white. I would argue, if they still exist as they do now, they are quite successful. He talks about Reiser V4. I think there is a Reiser V5 now? Or am I wrong? I cannot find that on Wikipedia. Anyway, the chances of it ending…
> He sounds very humble.
psychopaths work very hard at this.
Re: Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel
#470Earlier quoted context omitted.
ReiserFS and BTRFS are the only 2 Linux filesystems that truly ate my data. Everything else I was able to substantially recover from.
I've had really bad experiences with fat32 and xfat... back in the day it was pretty common to lose data due to hard drive or filesystem bullshit. In any case, I was a technology journo at the time this happened, and I covered this story, but I don't recall encountering a lot of technical discussion... it seemed to be mostly "ew this guy murdered his wife". Which is entirely deserved. (If a little unfair to the creat…
Reiser stored his email on disks in NTFS format, not ReiserFS. Strange.