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Stealth Dave writes "ZDNet has an article about a new television from Sylvania which is basically a Linux box with a 27" monitor and TV tuner (800x600 resolution, even)! It runs a Geode single-chip solution and is broadband capable. Lots of cool features, and is designed to support a hard drive as well. The ZDNet article has a surprising amount of details without being too technical to lose their broader audience." This "news story" reads a lot more like an advertisement, but take it for what it's worth.

According to a story posted by ZDNN, two security holes have been found on Windows 2000, and that's even before the official release of Windows 2000! Administrators who rush to incorporate the patch from MS beware - according to one of the talkback posts on ZDNN, the patch creates a new problem with Windows 2000 news server service.

ShawnD writes "A California woman has gotten out of a $70,000 on line gambling debt by claiming that the 'loan' from Visa was illegal (California apparently frowns on loaning money for gambling). The judge agreed. See this article at ZDNN."

Anonymous Coward writes "ZDNN is running an article about how a good geek is hard to find. " The American Singles group is holding its annual convention in the Valley, because of the sheer amount of good men that are availible. Dear Lord.

Enucite writes "ZDNet has an article entitled "Gore's 'open source' blasphemy". It talks about the Gore 2000 website, then goes on to talk about the response on Slashdot" I wish articles referring to Slashdot comments would link the comment so that their readers could read the whole thread and not just the 2 sentances the story writer felt like sharing. And I wish they could figure out who "Anonymous Coward" really is. Ah well, nice to see we made some waves, but the offending passage still apears on the web site.

So last week there was a lot of hype about Microsoft embedding IDs into documents that would allow tracing of authors. This week there was hype about Melissa- yet another lame doomsday macro virus (intentionally not posted here because I found it stupid). But mix the 2 together, and you get a story sent to us by stevew: the Melissa Virus can supposedly be traced to its creator using those annoying little ids. They don't have exact details, but the article says that it came from AOL.