Stan Goodman wrote:
At 14:32:17 on Tuesday Tuesday 29 April 2008, martin glazer <martinsglazer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Can't he still write code from his prison cell?
He can indeed, if he has the energy to concentrate in the prison environment, and after the work that the prison will require of him. He will be fortunate if they make him administrator of the institution's LAN etc.
But the remarkable thing is that the man now has at least 25 years of incarceration to look forward to, under circumstances that at the very best will be exceedingly trying, and the only concern expressed here is "what will happen now to ReiserFS.
Arrangements might be made if a group comes forward and pushes a "public interest" angle for him to be allowed access to have a laptop and the internet to continue work on the filesystem. The current theory of imprisonment in the U.S. is to simply to confine a person and remove him from the general public, and to live within some rules of non-disruptive behavior within the prison. However, being convicted of the most violent of crimes, Reiser won't be held in a "country club" prison. He'll be in with the worst of the California prison system, and will probably need to first curry favor with one gang or another simply for his own physical safety as well as his computer. To successfully accomplish that will mean committing minor infractions which would drive a wedge between himself and the prison staff which would be responsible for granting him access to any computer network resources -- possibly for years.
THAT is the depressing part of it.
Its not like this was a surprise. He was originally arrested back in October, 2006. But unless you know a way of bringing his wife back from the dead, what else is there to say? (And generally speaking, based on my extensive travels, Russian women are the best in the world.) Last year, I lost 6 friends, in 3 separate incidences, none of whom deserved to die. Nothing anybody says can undo that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org