Not that it's cool to whine about moderation, but what exactly was wrong with these two comments?

Seen on the Slashdot footer right now:

Live Free or Live in Massachusettes.

Do I take it that the joke here is that the charming libertarian wackos from New Hampshire are too dumb to spell the name of their next door neighbor? :-)

Dear Aunty Slashdot,

Like many people, my wife and I have digital cameras that can record short mpeg video files in addition to traditional jpeg stills. Like any still camera, taking photos with the camera held vertically is a perfectly conventional thing to do, if the subject matter being photographed would be better framed that way. Caught up in the moment though, we've also got some video files that were shot this way, and fixing these is proving to be much harder to correct. Does an

Dear aunty Slashdot,

Does anyone here understand how Mozilla / Firebird's current security module system works? In particular, does anyone know what's up with the "software security device"?

So, much to the delight of every liberal in America, Rush Limbaugh has been caught in a wonderful pair of fuckups this week -- blatant racism, and abuse of a drug that can cause deafness (which it just so happens he came down with a sudden case of a year or two ago -- curious, eh?).

According to Macworld UK, Be, Inc. has settled its antitrust suit against Microsoft for $23 million. Microsoft, typically, admits no wrongdoing in the settlement. Readers may recall that Be, maker of the BeOS operating system, brought their suit against the Microsoft back in

It looks like the staff at E-Commerce Times have come up with a wonderful new logo for SCO articles, as scaled down to icon size by Google News (and I've stashed a

This story is hilarious: Nascar fan gets pissed that a Red Sox game preempted his Nascar races, so he fires off half a million emails to the Boston FOX affiliate in order to make his displeasure clear.

Never underestimate the raw fury & power of a Nascar fan that has, apparently, been taught Perl somewhere along the line... :-)

I have a loosely organized directory tree of photos on my site. I'd like a nicer way to present these than simple Apache directory listings, but I'd rather reuse existing code (even if possibly modifying code, templates & stylesheets) than start from scratch. I've poked around a bit, but nothing I've seen seems to quite meet the rough criteria I have in mind. For people that have photo galleries on your sites, are there good solutions available from somewhere like CPAN or Sourceforge?

Darl McBride's "surprise" at RedHat's suit is almost like a scene out of Dr Strangelove...

[The President calls the RedHat Premier.]

I still think this is brilliant:

In the issues of December 16th 2000 to November 10th 2001, we may have given the impression that George Bush had been legally and duly elected president of the United States. We now understand that this may have been incorrect, and that the election result is still too close to call. The Economist apologises for any inconvenience.

-The Economist

And a good followup line:

Microsoft is a lot of negative things, but stupid isn't one of them. So, for the sake of argument, let's consider that IE as a freestanding product has been not discontinued, but mothballed. No one seems to be working on it, no new versions are forthcoming, there is no roadmap for future development.

What happens then if Mozilla really does start to gain market share?

Is it me, or is this man (mirrored here, but please be merciful of my limited bandwidth) demonstrating that the best place to use office is, well, your "other" office?

Pretending for a minute that there are no privacy downsides to RFID (obviously they exist, and they may be significant enough to scuttle public acceptance of the technology), why is all the RFID hype targeted at inventory control? That's a topic that I'd assume is only of interest if you happen to work in retail or manufacturing. How about an application that would appeal to actual consumers: point of sale systems?

I was going to post this in reply to somebody's comment, but it wasn't really relevant there. So, for my own reference (and for that of anyone that reads my journal (hello, Andrew!)...)...

David Boies has: