Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:35:56 -0000, tim <TimJ@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:
>
>>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022300693_pf.html
>> 
>> What I'd like to know is exactly HOW you can establish yourself as a
Geek, 
>> so you can claim this defence. If writing a file system for Linux is
all  it 
>> takes (a weekend's work for a COBOL programmer...), then there are a
lot 
>> more Geeks around than many people may suppose.
>> 
>> Did he do it?  (Jo Brand, referring to O. J. Simpson: "Course he did
it; 
>> he's a bloke...")
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Pete.
>
>You must be pretty good if you can write 15,000 lines of
>multi-processing kernel code in a weekend. This is the size of the ext3
>file system which is the predominant file system used in Linux.
>
>His attorney's tactics smack of desperation I think. But I have no idea
>whether he did it.
>
>Tim

The evidence is sketchy at best and I think Tim is right about their
defense.  Better to focus on another suspect than to try and prove
yours is too weird to have committed murder.

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