Scott McNeally wants the trustbusters at the Justice Department to take a hard look at Microsoft’s investments. I don’t think that Microsoft’s billions of dollars in cash, or their willingness to spend them to buy into any company that might be onto something is monopolistic in and of itself, but they do complement Microsoft’s monopoly rather nicely.

1,000 protest pages later, DIVX is dead. Another win for consumer awareness.

Companies spend thousands of bucks to send people to JavaOne, and what do they do? Stand in line for hours to save $150 on a stupid Palm V.

The CERT Advisory on the ExploreZip Trojan horse/worm is available.

Microsoft played a dirty trick on Sun by paying an open source software company to embrace and extend Java for them. In the article, Charles Fitzgerald manages to take some really cheap shots at open source software in general, and Netscape in particular, but you’d expect that from a bottom feeding marketing pimp working for the computer industry’s leading employer of bottom feeding marketing pimps.

James Gosling is bragging that Unix isn’t susceptable to viruses. Umm … OK, James. Unix isn’t really susceptable to hostile programs like Melissa and the Explore.Zip worm, but there are plenty of ways that a malicious program could exploit a computer running Unix (or Linux).

Whoops, looks like there’s a big security hole in Microsoft IIS. It’s a buffer overflow in a Web-accessible program that allows users to change their passwords remotely. The real security advisory from eEye is here.

The announcement of Java for the Palm platform has been a long time coming. Attendees of JavaOne will be able to get the version of Java for the Palm today, the rest of us will have to wait.

If you think your Palm handheld is cool, check out the Itsy. Too bad it’s only a proof of concept.

Cem Kaner has done a lot of good work relating to UCITA (previously known as 2B), and has published that work at badsoftware.com.