Thursday, April 29, 2004
Enrique Santos and co-host Joe Ferrero, hosts of a Miami radio show are being fined by the FCC for prank calling Cuban President Fidel Castro for $4000. In response to this decision, the talk show host vow to pay the fine... with 400,000 pennies.
From Yahoo! News- MIAMI (Reuters), "Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites) with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.
Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero will pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) in Washington.
'We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He's a violator of human rights and they're fining us $4,000,' Santos said on Tuesday. 'We just find it absurd.'
Santos and Ferrero host 'El Vacilon de la Manana,' or 'The Morning Joker,' show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM in Miami."
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From Yahoo! News- TEHRAN (Reuters), "Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colorful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported."
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From Cnet NEWS, "Two anti-spyware bills are being readied in time for a hearing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The measures, one sponsored by a California Republican and the other by a Washington Democrat, take different approaches toward software that lurks on a computer and serves pop-up ads or transmits personal information. But both make the same point: Official Washington is becoming officially fed up with the proliferation of spyware and adware. The new attention paid to malicious software follows last fall's unprecedented focus on unsolicited commercial e-mail.
'It may be this year's spam, if you will,' Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., said in an interview. 'We're recognizing that we have privacy rights at stake that could be abused and you have this increasing infestation of pop-up ads. That's a great impediment to people's use of this technology.' Computer makers and security firms say that spyware and adware problems have increased nearly tenfold in the last year."
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From CNN, "The recording industry sued 477 more computer users Wednesday, including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states, accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.
The Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the largest labels, praised efforts by colleges and universities to use technology and school policies to crack down on music piracy on their own computer networks. But it said the most egregious offenders on campus deserved to be sued.
'There is also a complementary need for enforcement by copyright owners against the serious offenders to remind people that this activity is illegal,' said the group's president, Cary Sherman."
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Short on time? Ever sit down to study and have little time to cook? Many of us wander into the kitchen, open the pantry, and throw in the oven a pot of water to boil and break open a package of good ol' fashion ramen noodles. Well my friends, take note. In Japan, Ramen noodles has become the biggest craze of restaurant goers.
From Yahoo! News (World - AP Asia), "TOKYO - Customers with Prada handbags and Gucci sunglasses sometimes stand in line for hours and gaze hungrily at a TV outside the restaurant door, feasting their eyes on the delicacy that awaits: a bowl of noodles. The humble noodle — known in Japan as 'ramen' — has long been better known as a staple of construction workers and penny-pinching students than as a favorite of the chic.
But in a push to win over a new clientele, Japanese noodles are going upscale with special pork and organic vegetables served in eateries with fetching dark-wood interiors and soft lighting.
One company even came up with a shocker for anyone who's slurped down a calorie-packed bowl of noodles: diet ramen made from seaweed extracts. It weighs in at a meager 8 calories.
'The 'stylish ramen' stores have really boomed,' said Masahiko Ichiyanagi, who writes a 'ramen column' for a popular weekly magazine, Tokyo 1Week. 'The result is that it's now recognized as a legitimate leisure activity.'"
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