Well, they held the story for twenty-one hours, and I got a nice email from an Irish /. editor telling me that multiple posts *really* don't help, and iperhaps I should also use fewer adjectives.
But at 7.03 am this morning, timed specially for Europe, the story went live on Slashdot's front page:
New EU IP Law Deemed Harmful http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/20/216227&mode=thread