Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:35:56 -0000, tim <TimJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:46:19 +1300, Pete Dashwood wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.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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