Effective immediately, anyone can get the names, addresses, phone numbers, ages and other information for Orange County's 150,000-plus schoolchildren.
Reacting to news that the school district had been sharing the information with political consultants and others, the Orange County School Board voted 6-1 Tuesday to release the information to everyone.

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"This is what is wrong with Berman-Coble, with DRM, with TCPA, and with Gator. It's my computer, dammit. If I don't give informed consent, you can't use it."

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Using it, a condom can be put on in just three seconds, compared to the standard 30-40 seconds, the developers say.

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The MDI engine incorporates various innovative and novel systems, not only the basic idea (energy in the form of compressed air), but the materials it uses (glass fibre body or the use of edible oils) and the technical design. Regarding engine design, there is another innovative factor, the system of articulated conrods which allows the piston to pause at Top Dead Centre (TDC), creating a constant volume chamber for the air to expand. As a matter of fact, this system can be adapted to a conventional petrol engine.

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"Two doctors have said that my cancer is a smoker's tumour and, since I never smoked a day in my life, this is second-hand smoke related," said Crowe.

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The "mission" of this page is to poke a little fun at famous people who advertise in Japan but don't do it back home.

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To acknowledge this landmark case [Eldred vs. Ashcroft], an exhibit will celebrate "degenerate art" in a corporate age: art and ideas on the fringes of intellectual property law.

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In a not-unexpected but nevertheless painful move, ABC has been forced to cancel two new dramas, "Push, Nevada" and "That Was Then," because of low ratings. "That Was Then," about a man who gets the chance to relive events from high school, was a weak performer on Friday night, while "Push" managed a strong audience in an initial Tuesday outing, but got clobbered in its regular Thursday night timeslot opposite two of primetime%uFFD5s biggest hits, "CSI" and "Will & Grace." Media Life%uFFD5s Dan Jewel predicted that the timeslot would be a problem but gave the Ben Affleck-produced series a critical thumbs-up, writing, "%uFFD5Push, Nevada%uFFD5 succeeds as a sort of %uFFD4Twin Peaks%uFFD5 Lite, filled with oddball humor and a smooth noir look." At least one more episode of the series will have to air so that writers will get a chance to insert a clue that will allow viewers to solve the mystery and compete for the promised $1 million prize.

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To some, this is a sign of a nation gone perilously soft. They worry that the cosseted Japanese youths of the future, sitting dreamily on air conditioned thrones, will be no match for their squat-toilet neighbors — the worker bees of industrial China or the spartan soldiers of North Korea.

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Mr Maia said that if Rosinha Matheus became governor of Rio de Janeiro state he would ride around the city naked.

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...compared with a VCR or DVD player, a TiVo is difficult to set up and maintain. It's not rocket science, but to mangle the words of H.L. Mencken, lots of businesses have gone broke underestimating the technophobia of the American public. For a nation that still prefers to access the Internet via the "sandbox" of America Online, hooking up a hard disk to a television seems like a fairly Byzantine task. When a British media consultancy recently distributed some TiVos, 30 percent of the recipient households "never really got to grips with them" --or, in other words, they preferred to let the pricey boxes gather dust rather than waste another second figuring out the labyrinthine menus.

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Jot McCloud, a 28-year-old retail consultant, says a good example is the sometimes hostile attitude of Mr. Krabs, the proprietor of the local hangout, the Krusty Krab, toward SpongeBob, who works there as a fry cook. Mr. Krabs "doesn't like to be around SpongeBob because SpongeBob's so flamboyant and outgoing," says Mr. McCloud. The interaction is "like a straight person who for whatever reason is thrown into a situation where they are around a gay person and they don't have that comfort level."

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The high cost of shipping led 17 per cent to abandon their carts. In fact, 59 per cent of online shoppers believe they're being gouged for further profit on shipping costs.

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It may also be the first circuit court decision to hold that online contracts regarding software downloads (usually called clickwraps) may not be valid because of where the legal terms were placed. In this case, the contractual terms were one page below the button that launched the software download on the Netscape page, which would have required the user to scroll down to see them.

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The book -- to be released this month -- investigates the social impact of mobile and pervasive computing. In eight chapters, Rheingold chronicles how "smart mobs," defined as "people who are able to act in concert even if they don't know each other," are reshaping the way societies organize and interact.

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