This article will disappear in a month (Score 1)

Linking to Yahoo News URLs in Slashdot article posts is a bad idea. You'd expect the Slashdot guys to already understand this, but apparently not: Yahoo News temporarily hosts articles that are available elsewhere on the Web. The URLs for those temporary articles die after about a month or two. All you have to do is just copy/paste the article headline into Google News to find a more permanent link. It's easy, mmkay?

What's the point of Slashdot having archives if the stuff in the archives is nothing but dead links? All URLs are "temporary", of course, just like everything else in the universe is. But when you link to Yahoo News URLs, you're guaranteeing that you're posting a URL that will be obsolete before all the other URLs where the article is hosted are.

When you link to Yahoo News on pages that are supposed to be archived, God kills a kitten.

Please, think of the kittens.