For some schools, including all schools in the UC system, CS majors have to take EE classes as part of their requirements. I remember having to setup and program gates and the sort on FPGA boards.

_You don't need to be able to see the camera to respond to messages in the bottom half of the screen._

But the camera _does_ need to see you in order to unlock in this case. You can't read or reply to a message without unlocking first.

This is wrong. You can easily read messages and reply to them from the lockscreen.

During my time of service this was an oft repeated bastardization of Admiral Nimitz' quote: Common sense was an uncommon virtue.

Right. You used to have to see the ads during the actual game, but now they show the ads that will be shown during the game during the "news" in a "you have to watch these ads" segment.

or even before the super bowl.

In California, there is the "Shine the Light" law [0] that requires a company to release third-party information to a consumer if there is identifiable information given to third-parties along with the data collected. So in this case, Vizio would be required (at least to California natives) to release those third-parties' names and associated data collected from you. [0] http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection....

Thanks for the additional information.

This is a step in the right direction but it's unfortunate that the obligation to disclose appears to be opt-in and not opt-out as detailed in paragraph (a).

> that business shall, after the receipt of a written or electronic mail request, or, if the business chooses to receive requests by toll-free telephone or facsimile numbers, a telephone or facsimile request from the customer, provide all of the following information to the customer free of charge

To compile a list of all companies that have their personal information an user would have to identify every business they have a business relationship with that could possibly be gathering this information and then send a written request to each on a regular basis as the request is only valid for information disclosed in the proceeding year. It seems then that this law only really covers consumers in the event that they find one specific and recent instance where they'd like this information disclosed.

Correction:

> To compile a list of all companies that have their personal information an user would have to identify every business they have a business relationship with that could possibly be gathering this information and then send a written request to each on a regular basis as the request is only valid for information disclosed in the preceding year.

I just looked into why that is the case and if you hover over the little dropdown carrot for the "3.8 out of 5" you see this:

Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases.

So a product would just need a small percentage of 5 star reviews in the beginning of the review period.

On mobile, at least Safari iOS, all the AMP results are at the very top. I can't even see the first non-AMP result unless I'm in portrait.

This is a different feature unrelated to the launch today. It doesn't always show on top, but often will because the sites posting AMP content tend to rank well.

It looks like in Los Angeles this could become a reality soon. At least for a year: http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-garcetti-co...

My corporate CitiBank card required me to set a pin when they switched to chip cards. All my other chip cards have been chip and signature though.

scorecardresearch is the endpoint for comScore which is used to do exactly what you mentioned. Imgur buys the data from comScore as a sort of "online Nielsen rating" in order to sell the value of the site to ad vendors.

If imgur has to buy profiling data from someone else, it isn't really their data is it? That is, imgur could not recreate that same data alone, they need the partner who can get the missing data from the rest of the partner's network.

The bottom line is imgur's data is probably not worth much, what _is_ worth a lot is imgurs traffic, and that traffic is taking a hit from adblock.

They can play the old switcharoo and sell the data to that vendor.