After reading the headline, am I the only one that thought embedded in the context of microprocessors instead?

http://vimeo.com/22150511 This has the video of the images taken.

I thought it was just a clever way for us to do work training their facial recognition algorithm ... Maybe a huge conspiracy to create a government identification database!

The iron ring? I believe http://www.order-of-the-engineer.org/ these guys provide one with membership. They recruited membership at my first university.

I have a degree from a university in electrical engineering. I work as an electrical engineer and I consider myself one. I am not licensed as a professional engineer (PE) and have little interest in obtaining that license at this point as the type of work simply doesn't appeal to me.

As you suggest, those PEs do put their license on the line when they sign a document. From my understanding, companies that have resident PEs will only have a few and have other non-licensed engineers do the less expensive work.

If it is a product it will usually need to meet expectations set by a different regulatory body (ETL, UL, FCC, whatever). If it is a building, power related, whatever, then it requires the review of a PE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Engineer

I'm not really sure how they would regulate Facebook with their data ... I've never dealt with something like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaLZHiJJnE Don't cross the streams :-)

Actually, it's not a DSS video, although it is made available on their website. The DSS's own security videos indicate the Defense Security Service's name: http://dssa.dss.mil/seta/training_videos.html You'll notice that the NSA video includes no mention of the agency that produced it. But the polygraph examiners shown on the video are NSA personnel.

My site is hosted on a server in a data center in Canada by a Canadian company. But it seems that their bandwidth provider is a US company. I'm in the Netherlands.

Actually, the letter that Pearson sent to me does not appear to be formulated as a DMCA take-down request, though it mentions that one has been sent to my ISP. It is true that I did not post the text to which Pearson objects.

Thank you for pointing out my error!