I'm thinking of putting up a list of URLs of unfairly moderated posts. Here's the deal. Link them here, and I'll go through the list and any which in my sole opinion have at least a shred of usefulness will go into a list which I'll post links to here in my journal and on another site. I'd prefer if you'd give me permission to also mirror the posts themselves, but if you don't mention that I can do that I'll only post the links. If there are a lot maybe I'll separate them into different categories: "funny but offtopic", "criticism of slashdot", "different viewpoints", etc. I'll try to keep an open mind, but purely useless trolls will be ignored as will duplicate submissions.

U.S. Democrats are criticizing a plan to transport the nation's nuclear waste to a storage facility beneath the Nevada desert.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on a Bush administration plan to build a permanent nuclear waste dump in Yucca mountain in the Nevada desert, 145 kilometers northwest of Las Vegas.

In the Democrats' weekly radio address Saturday, Nevada Congresswoman Shelley Berkley said waste shipments from nuclear power plants - mainly in the east - across the country would be an attractive target for terrorists. She also said an accident involving nuclear waste would be catastrophic.

The congresswoman accused the Bush administration of putting the country at risk of "mobile Chernobyls" - a reference to the 1986 explosion at the Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant that spread radiation over much of Europe.

The waste-dump plan has strong support from both parties in the House of Representatives. Opponents believe prospects of stopping it are stronger in the Senate. Nevada's governor has vetoed the plan, but the president and congress could override the state's objections.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress last week nuclear waste could be safely transported by rail.

Story from VOANews.

A federal judge today dismissed the case filed by Walter Hewlett against the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger.

According to an article on infoworld, the Federation Against Software Theft has created a plugin to help you report online software piracy. When you visit a site which "[offers] for sale or [facilitates] the download of illegal software," you can press a button on your browser to report it to FAST.

Two U.S. governors have announced new security measures for the three major airports that service New York City.

The governors of New York and New Jersey said Friday they support a plan to require increased criminal background checks of airport employees at the Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports. They also plan on installing fingerprint scanners to identify employees, more sophisticated cameras and motion detectors.

The $100 million plan goes beyond new security measures passed by Congress last year.

The New York and New Jersey state legislatures must pass laws in order to allow the background checks and fingerprint scanners.

Story from VOANews. Modifications made.

An article on newsfactor discusses a new memory technology which the author suggests might mean the end of computer rebooting. Essentially it's only nonvolatile ram though, and while that might cut down on rebooting for those of us who turn on and off our computers, the operating systems themselves would have to change before we could really start cutting down on time-consuming reboots. This is one place where linux and other unix lookalikes have an advantage - they are specifically built to run for long periods of time without rebooting.