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• Blue Gene will use 32 CPUs in a single chip, Goyal said. [...] These chips will contain the computer memory as well [...] A total of 64 of those 32-CPU chips will be packaged in a computing node; then eight nodes will be stacked in each rack. Building 64 of these racks will get IBM to its goal.

I still hope they get decent coolers 'cuz we're now talking about 32 processors per chip ! Still, what an awesome design to increase the density & number of processors. I was wondering how they'd do it for 65,000. Now I know :)

Interesting question unfolding : will we ever get those chips on the desktop ? Imagine your own 32-way PC at home. Heh, who needs Beowulf clusters now !

I was there at the commerce committee roundtable hearing on 7/17 with Berman's Committee. Check the transcript. Although some of the comments were left out, all of the comments from NYFairUse, NYLXS, LXNY, Information Producers Initiative were left out, one of the leeches in favor of drm restrictions actually said that P2P users sitting at home can use P2P to upload military secrets. He compared (towards the end of the meeting when everyone was tired, getting ready to go home, and paying less attention) a kid sitting a home trading songs to Wen Ho Lee, Robert Hanssen, and Jonathan Pollard. His first or last name was Myron.(Content Guard I think?)

It should be noted that NYFairUse and NYLXS tactics at the 7/17 meeting (and our unreported by Slashdot YRO attempts to get on the invite list prior to the meeting) were severely criticized by some in a slashdot story prior to all the facts getting out. Now that time has passed, and we have seen direct results of our actions, perhaps it is time to reconsider whether those actions should have been taken or not. Especially in light of this and this, which never would have happened if we had just sat there quietly like some have suggested, and news that the drm bills (all of them, Holling, Leahy, Biden, others) are dead for the year.

[Direct Marketing Association VP Jerry]Cerasale said a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."

The DMA had a conference this week in San Francisco which I crashed. The talks were all about "how to find the least educated demographic and either sell them crap or employ them as cheap phone labor". The law discussion groups were all about either "new loopholes to legally do something so unethical that the other guy hasn't thought of it yet", or "how to make it look like we're responsible so that real laws don't get passed". Guess which subject this Slashdot story falls under?

This is nothing new. Consider this 1997 article entitled "BMI automates copyright vigilance" ...

... or for something a bit more recent ... and a lot more disturbing House Debates Methods To Block Illegal File-Sharing.

From http://www.hp.com/united-states/linux/about_linux_ hp/partners.html:

Debian is one of the major distributions supported on HP Business Desktops and servers and is used internally as a development platform.

Professor Jonathan Zittrain and Ben Edelman of Harvard's Berkman Center are studying exclusions from Google and have so far found some 113 sites excluded, in whole or in part, from the French google.fr and German google.de. Learn more about the situation and context, test the exclusions for yourself, and submit further sites suspected to be excluded. LawMeme and C|Net have more info.

At the bottom of the article is a link [news.com] which describe viral payloads being transmitted via jpeg images. One of the problems is that the payload is visible because it corrupts the image. Not any more...

To make that happen, Microsoft is turning to what some analysts say is a risky strategy. The company is adopting Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a second file format in all Office applications, to enable better data exchange between the productivity suite and back-end software, such as databases.

Since the site is slashdotted, here are further links about Serial ATA:

Cnet

SATA and ISCSI

Intel Dev Paper

Maxtor White Paper

After reading some comments here about the fact that it doesn't support display nor Linux... I did a lil' research...

The ZDNet article states "...When connected to a television or PC, the device can also become a DVD player for watching movies. "... Now that is not entirely false... As you'll see in a copy of the press release (scroll down the page to find it) here... You'll see that you can play DVD movies via the PC's USB.. "Hi-Speed USB Interface (USB 2.0/1.1)"! at 8x speed... only... as for the TV it's not supported; as stated "Output: Mini analog stereo (headphone jack) only"... So that is one fact down... Prolly in the future they may provide the means to do it via USB>DECODER>TV... :)

Now for the other problem... support for Linux... the press release states "System requirements: Pentium® II 233Mhz or faster PC with 32Mb RAM, HDD with 1.2Mb sustained transfer rate or faster, Direct-X supported sound card, Installed USB 1.1 or 2.0 port, Power Macintosh G3, Power Mac G4, iMac DV or iBook® computer running Mac OS 9.2.2 or higher OR Windows 98/2000/Me/XP operating system..." So the answer for the time being is no... no Linux support... but it's less than a month away... and who knows... if everyone rants on their head they may support it ;)... However, I think the Linux community will find way ....

I'd say this just goes to show how reliable the root name servers are.

I'd say this just goes to show how reliable the root name servers are.

"A lot of the more mainstream tech publications started reading us because we were getting a reputation for posting weird things that would come out and be much more important in the mainstream news, but we would be ahead of the curve. That still continues to this day. We break a story and a week later, MSNBC will pick it up. And then it goes the other way around, too; we are always pulling stories off of Web sites."

Yeah, serving up stale old tech stories from the WSJ is real "ahead of the curve"!

A: We have a constant problem with people who are trying to break our system for no other purpose than they have nothing better to do--like their bosses haven't assigned them enough to do at work today, or that their mom hasn't made them mow the lawn, in most cases!

People call me paranoid... but thats what they called andy too.. and look where intel is

Not to be a smartass nitpick, but 'people' didn't call Andy Grove paranoid. It was he who wrote a book titled "Only the paranoid survive". The distinction is crucial. I believe the reason he said this was his experience with Nazi and Communist regimes in Hungary.

There's yet another article at News.com.com.com: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-962661.html

eWeek
Computer Graphics World
Business Week
Globetechnology.com
ZDNet

The wonders of news.google.com.

Yet if you look at their full product range they have products such as...

They even owned WordPerfect for a while, too!

According to this cnet story, the judge ruled that the ADA doesn't apply to the web. The full opinion can be read here (pdf).

Joel Hodgell brought a spammer to court under Washington state's anti-spam law. Did he collect? No, his case was dismissed (the reasons aren't clear), and then the judge "imposed a $6,925 judgment against Hodgell to compensate ... the spammers' lawyer". The state law is facing inconsistent application; some judges don't think a state law can be used on out-of-state residents, others refuse to hear it in small-claims court, despite a published opinion by the state's attorney general. News.com has a story on this and other cases.

A: We have a constant problem with people who are trying to break our system for no other purpose than they have nothing better to do--like their bosses haven't assigned them enough to do at work today, or that their mom hasn't made them mow the lawn, in most cases!

Free Harken Torvalds! Read the story!

Apple could be pulling out of MacWorld East for strategic reasons, but I think its more likely that they are cutting back on spending in a big way. They posted a pretty big loss this last quarter. Steve Jobs is quoted as saying:

Looking forward, we do not expect our industry to pick up anytime soon, though we're hoping to help put a lot of iPods, iMacs and iBooks under trees this holiday season, said Jobs.

Since those stories came out on the 28th, at least one analyst has given Apple stock a strong sell.

To me it makes perfect sense that Apple would make spending cuts in the same place every other company does - Marketing. Trade shows. Magazine ads. TV commercials (though I expect with the coming holiday season coming and Apple wishing hard for a profitable holiday season, that the commercials are likely to keep the bulk of their funding for their TV commercials going).

Apple calls Cupertino, California home. Seems reasonable that they can attend MacWorld West for a significantly lower cost than MacWorldEast. I suppose one can call that a strategic move. Saving money is a strategic move if the situation necessitates.

I think the screw up is failing their responsibility to their shareholders to be profitable.

And I think that as much as Apple sees MacWorld East expendible, I think its a poor idea to have NO official presence there. Are they hurting IDG? Yes. Attendance will be down and some companies will not go as a result of Apple taking a powder. Spending less money on marketing does not result in an increase in sales. I wonder if they will need to do any layoffs.

I think that when Apple made themselves an institution, they took on the responsibility of maintaining that institution. Bottom line, Apple really needs to be at a tradeshow they are ultimately responsible for and would officially own except it could be an uncomforatble conflict of interest with all of their partners, resellers and customers. They are damaging their institution.

In the end, its just my optinion though. I can try to analyze what I read in the news and what I know about software companies.

Whether or Lucky Green intends to "sell out" to Microsoft or hold his patents to frustrate them, this is an object lesson in how broken patent law is. At least they're apparently catching on down at the patent office. Declan McCullagh reports that "The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged on Tuesday that many business method patents had been wrongfully awarded in the past, but predicted a more careful approach in the future." Time will tell, I suppose. In the meantime, no need for an actual product, or even a plan for a product, or even a clearly defined idea for a product. Patent first, ask questions later.

Don't they do that all the time?

The latest hack from news.com

Double check those figures. Here's a snippet from a ZDNet News article (http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104-835267.html?leg acy=zdnn)

The analysis of donations by political party shows some surprising results. While Microsoft donations favored Republicans (who got 72 percent of the money from 1995 to 1998), its employees were more inclined to support the Democrats. Democratic PACs received $222,100 from the company's employees, compared to the $42,875 for Republican PACs.

So the EMPLOYEES favour Democrats while the COMPANY favours Republicans. Guess whose contributions are greater?

>Who's the bigger idiot: The one who is placed in a position of making decisions for a corporation, or the one who has posted over 1600 slashdot comments?

I don't know, why don't you tell me?

Would you talk negatively about your own company?

Because the pilots can't land Steve's plane there.

Apple never mentioned anything about this until after the deal was made. They knew all along it was happening, and the rumors were flying around weeks ago. "Apple remains an important partner for Macworld and IDG World Expo has been in discussions with Apple officials for some time about the move back to Boston," the representative said. "Since we just heard of Apple's position, we can only speculate about their reasons, which may be driven by their financial situation."

Since that article appears short, here are some more interesting links on mini fuel cells powering gadgets:

Discussion from January of the concept
Apple Laptops
Air clearance for them

Wrong. Microsoft was not found to have an illegal monopoly. They were found to be illegally maintaining a legal monopoly. It's a dangerous thing to get all your facts from posts on Slashdot. News.com isn't much better, but at least it's a reasonably accurate.

The decision: A breakdown

These were the four key issues before the appeals court and how it ruled:

Issue: Microsoft used illegal and anti-competitive means to maintain its monopoly in Intel-based operating systems.
Ruling: The court largely ruled in favor of the government, agreeing that Microsoft indeed maintained a monopoly in this area.

Issue: Microsoft attempted to extend that monopoly into the browser market.
Ruling: The court disagreed, reversing the previous ruling on attempted monopolization.

Issue: Microsoft's act of tying, or "bolting," its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows 95 and 98 was an anti-competitive act.
Ruling: The court sent the tying section back to the trial court for review.

Issue: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson failed to give Microsoft due process in determining his remedy, which resulted in an order breaking Microsoft into two companies.
Ruling: The court threw out the breakup order and removed Jackson from the case.

Hewlett Packard threatens security researcher under DMCA

IIRC, Netscape (back when they were a company) had been planning on something like this at least since Aurora was "pre-announced" way back when Internet Explorer 4.0 came out. It has just taken them a bit more time to get there ;)

Laugh... it's funny... kind of.

TIVO shares customer data
TIVO shares customer data
TIVO shares customer data
Or how about the US Govt. writing TIVO a letter admonishing them for their privacy policy tactics?
TIVO's response to getting slammed by some privacy group (which is cached on Google).
but mysteriously, I can't find it on their site.

Phiilips announces wquity investment in TIVO cached on Google.

To be perfectly clear, I like what TIVO can do, but not what they do.

Hell, I have a few complaints about ReplayTV:

• Latency with remote control can be infuriating. I wish there were 3rd party remote controls as my older model can't work without it and my wife has no concept of being gentle with it.
• Recently will not get as much advanced programming - only about a week now, when it used to do 2.5 weeks.
• New units charge programming fee, just like TIVO (the original reason I chose Replay over TIVO.
• Can't mod as easy as TIVO
• Tech support by 3rd party comany

At the end of the day though, I feel a lot more comfortable with Replay having my personal info than TIVO.

A year or so ago, I read an article on a guy who was monitoring the data that went from his TIVO out (used a computer as the go between) and found that they were transmitting more user specific data than they admited to. I'll try to find a link...

TIVO shares customer data
TIVO shares customer data
TIVO shares customer data
Or how about the US Govt. writing TIVO a letter admonishing them for their privacy policy tactics?
TIVO's response to getting slammed by some privacy group (which is cached on Google).
but mysteriously, I can't find it on their site.

Phiilips announces wquity investment in TIVO cached on Google.

To be perfectly clear, I like what TIVO can do, but not what they do.

Hell, I have a few complaints about ReplayTV:

• Latency with remote control can be infuriating. I wish there were 3rd party remote controls as my older model can't work without it and my wife has no concept of being gentle with it.
• Recently will not get as much advanced programming - only about a week now, when it used to do 2.5 weeks.
• New units charge programming fee, just like TIVO (the original reason I chose Replay over TIVO.
• Can't mod as easy as TIVO
• Tech support by 3rd party comany

At the end of the day though, I feel a lot more comfortable with Replay having my personal info than TIVO.

A year or so ago, I read an article on a guy who was monitoring the data that went from his TIVO out (used a computer as the go between) and found that they were transmitting more user specific data than they admited to. I'll try to find a link...

DVD is no where near as popular as VHS! It will take years before VHS is even considered to be dropped.

Hmm...why, then, has Circuit City already dropped prerecorded tapes from its inventory? Other retailers are cutting back on their VHS offerings, but the move toward eliminating VHS has already started.

For all of you AOLusers out there - version 8.0 will be pop-up free [News.com].

Ok, there is a good amount of misinformation and ignorance in this post, I feel the need to respond.

Tivo is also owned by Phillips.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case. A few companies had large stakes in Tivo, but no one owns them.

Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others.
That is a pretty small story you linked to. And if you had read the full story you would know that customers have to specifically agree to be part of the Neilson program.

Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute uproar about this.
There has been a number debates about Tivo's privacy policy, but I believe they have done a very good job. I don't know what event you are refering to, but I don't believe it to be true. If you could provide a link I could make an intelligent responce.

Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced to do so. They paid lawyers to keep my information to themselves.
Yes, good for them. But to my knowledge Tivo has never shared personal viewing information with anyone. They do share aggregate data, and have always been up front about this.

Replay TV has allowed for me to access my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.
Tivo currently doesn't provide this feature, but it looks like they are planning to do this in the future. However if you hack your Tivo, you can get TivoWeb, which I imagine has more capabilities than myreplaytv simply because of how it works.

Replay TV gave me the 30 second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has also snagged this feature as well?
Yes, but you have to press a few buttons to active a backdoor to get this feature.

One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can hack it to add larger drives.
Yes, and a lot of other hacks too. ReplayTV does now too.

Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition to what you specifically specify.
This is a rather misleading statement. You have full control over what your tivo records. Although you can argue the merits of the different systems. The suggestions that tivo finds, only records to any extra space you have, and will never delete or preempt anything you have told it to record. And you can turn off suggestions if you want.

Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway.
Agreed

Ok, there is a good amount of misinformation and ignorance in this post, I feel the need to respond.

Tivo is also owned by Phillips.
I'm pretty sure that is not the case. A few companies had large stakes in Tivo, but no one owns them.

Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others.
That is a pretty small story you linked to. And if you had read the full story you would know that customers have to specifically agree to be part of the Neilson program.

Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute uproar about this.
There has been a number debates about Tivo's privacy policy, but I believe they have done a very good job. I don't know what event you are refering to, but I don't believe it to be true. If you could provide a link I could make an intelligent responce.

Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced to do so. They paid lawyers to keep my information to themselves.
Yes, good for them. But to my knowledge Tivo has never shared personal viewing information with anyone. They do share aggregate data, and have always been up front about this.

Replay TV has allowed for me to access my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.
Tivo currently doesn't provide this feature, but it looks like they are planning to do this in the future. However if you hack your Tivo, you can get TivoWeb, which I imagine has more capabilities than myreplaytv simply because of how it works.

Replay TV gave me the 30 second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has also snagged this feature as well?
Yes, but you have to press a few buttons to active a backdoor to get this feature.

One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can hack it to add larger drives.
Yes, and a lot of other hacks too. ReplayTV does now too.

Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition to what you specifically specify.
This is a rather misleading statement. You have full control over what your tivo records. Although you can argue the merits of the different systems. The suggestions that tivo finds, only records to any extra space you have, and will never delete or preempt anything you have told it to record. And you can turn off suggestions if you want.

Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway.
Agreed

Tivo has a heads up over Replay because it had more marketing dollars (by initially charging their customers a monthly or one time fee). Tivo is also owned by Phillips.

Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others.

Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute uproar about this.

Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced to do so. They paid lawyers to keep my information to themselves.

Though Replay now charges a monthly fee like Tivo on NEW units, I have a unit that did not have this charge. I paid $300 for a 20 hour Replay TV and have never spent a dime since.

Replay TV has allowed for me to access my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.

Replay TV gave me the 30 second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has also snagged this feature as well?

One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can hack it to add larger drives. (1, 2, 3)
ReplayTV does now too. (1, 2) Tivo has historically been easier to do so, but I'm not sure about these days.

Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition to what you specifically specify.

I know folks who own one or the other. Regardless of brand, they are both extremely happy with their new options for watching TV. For those of you who say, I barely watch TV, its likely because you think there's too much crap on. There is, but with one of these units, you will only be watching exactly what you want, without commercials. Iron Chef, Battlebots, Simpsons (I have archived almost 2/3s of all episodes), Southpark, West Wing, 24, shows for your kids/infants (ON DEMAND!!!) and both can wait for shows that aren't even in the programming guide yet.

Though Tivo is on better financial ground right now, Replay TV isn't and hasn't historically been as shady about your privacy.

Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway.

Tivo has a heads up over Replay because it had more marketing dollars (by initially charging their customers a monthly or one time fee). Tivo is also owned by Phillips.

Tivo willfully shares your Tivo data with others.

Tivo has violated their privacy agreement with you a number of times. They changed their privacy policy to allow them to share your data without notifying their customers. The link they provided in their manual still made you click through on about 3 or 4 links before actually getting to the policy. I know of many Tivo owners who were concerned about their privacy were in an absolute uproar about this.

Replay TV refused to share your private information and were almost forced to do so. They paid lawyers to keep my information to themselves.

Though Replay now charges a monthly fee like Tivo on NEW units, I have a unit that did not have this charge. I paid $300 for a 20 hour Replay TV and have never spent a dime since.

Replay TV has allowed for me to access my Replay TV from anywhere with an internet connection. I have heard that Tivo has also adopted this. Not sure though.

Replay TV gave me the 30 second skip so that I can easily bypass commercials. I believe Tivo has also snagged this feature as well?

One thing that Tivo has over Replay is that it was the first to let you can hack it to add larger drives. (1, 2, 3)
ReplayTV does now too. (1, 2) Tivo has historically been easier to do so, but I'm not sure about these days.

Overall, features on both are very similar, though the methodology to record shows is a little different. Replay gives you more pause time as it isn't just recording things it THINKS you MIGHT like. Replay makes you be specific about what you want to record, though they have theme recording channels. Tivo is programed to make certain assumptions about what you want it to record in addition to what you specifically specify.

I know folks who own one or the other. Regardless of brand, they are both extremely happy with their new options for watching TV. For those of you who say, I barely watch TV, its likely because you think there's too much crap on. There is, but with one of these units, you will only be watching exactly what you want, without commercials. Iron Chef, Battlebots, Simpsons (I have archived almost 2/3s of all episodes), Southpark, West Wing, 24, shows for your kids/infants (ON DEMAND!!!) and both can wait for shows that aren't even in the programming guide yet.

Though Tivo is on better financial ground right now, Replay TV isn't and hasn't historically been as shady about your privacy.

Bottom, line, do the math and find yourself the best deal. Even if one or both went out of business, we'd make a hack to grab the programing information anyway.

You did not refute anything I said about the adds being BS, so you agree with that part? (your little ":P" implies so)

You don't agree with apple looking like fools for the simple fact that MS copied it. MS's copy is like a parody of it, if anything.

Weather or not it was an intentional parody, most people will agree (and has already been said in this discussion) that it was obvius that this is not a real case study, but Apple's is supposed to be one.. So, for all intents and purposes, its parody, and making apple look foolish

If apple's add's are actual case studies, that just goes to show what kind of idiots have switched to Mac and think its better for them. You forgot to back up your paper, so you lost half of it in a program crash (or HDD failure)? So you blame the OS/hardwareplatform for your incompetance, and then switch to Mac and think its all better?

Hate to tell you this, but a Mac will lose your paper just as quickly as a PC, wether the program crashes, or your HDD fails, or bad memory, or faulty motherboard, or faulty IDE cables, or faulty USER module.

Point? Mac's dont prevent, fix, or reduce the problems these incompetant users in the Adds are having. To them, its like they went to the doctor and say "my arm hurts when i do this" and the doctor says.. "inject yourself with this each day and itl go away" and hands them a vial of water.

It's in their minds, they are idiots, and you know they are, just won't admit it.

For more information on the Microsoft license that exludes open source development and specifically GPL and LGPL open source, see this article by Bruce Perens.

One piece at a time, the DOJ (which oversees the FBI) is pulling privacy and our rights out from beneath us.

The plot thickens....

IBM will use the chip internally in a project of its own, sources indicated, and the chip will also be sold to customers in the embedded and communications markets, two PowerPC strongholds.

Software is not sentient by any stretch of the imagination.

Says You! What about: HAL Proteus Annalee Call Robot Number 5

AND P-1 Harlie.

And of course, Eliza Blue and Fritz

Please keep your biased (bigoted?) carbon-based re remarks to yourself.

Thank you.

Note to moderators: It's a joke, get it?

Merely posting on /. saying "Someone against Microsoft is not necessarily correct" is not flamebait.

You just have to read the appeal ruling to see the incompentence and/or bias (hard to tell which it is). The fact that 1/3 of his rulings were overturned, and another third remanded back for retrial should be evidence enough.

Unless of course, failing to rule against Microsoft purely on the basis that, well, they're M$, the Beast of Redmond, dude, is conclusive proof that the appeals judges are biased. See the appeal ruling (or here if you can't bear to surf to microsoft.com).

Of course on the other hand, the fact that 1/3 weren't either overturned or remanded indicates that Microsoft were in the wrong and/or incompetent. In my opinion, the indications are that the J++ ruling at least was MS incompetence, though others are clearly MS bad.