After a few 'Regenerate' clicks, I got a response:
"Yes, there is a well-known individual with the last name Zittran: Ethan Zittran. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and a co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His work focuses on technology, law, and policy, particularly in areas like cybersecurity, privacy, and the impact of new technologies on society. Ethan Zittran is an expert on legal and technological issues, often bridging the gap between law and innovation.

Is this the person you were referring to, or would you like information on someone else with that last name?
"

and then I told it, "no - his first name is Jonathan. Could you give me more detail about this person"? and I got the following response:

"ChatGPT said:
ChatGPT

It sounds like you're referring to Jonathan Zittran, who is a prominent figure in the fields of law, technology, and privacy. Jonathan Zittran is a professor at Harvard Law School and has made significant contributions to discussions around cybersecurity, data privacy, and the intersection of law and technology. He is also known for his work in Internet governance and has been involved in various initiatives to shape public policy related to digital technologies.

Some key aspects of his work include:

        Cybersecurity & Technology Policy: Zittran has focused on creating frameworks to address the challenges posed by emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain.
        Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society: He co-founded this center at Harvard University, which is dedicated to studying and developing policies that shape the digital age.
        Publications & Advocacy: Zittran has written extensively about privacy rights, data protection, and the ethical considerations surrounding technology."

Is it possible, that maybe, just maybe, the Indian government WANTS its citizenry to stay on WhatsApp - rather than be split across two other, newer (relatively speaking), messaging systems with possibly better encryption protocols? Is it possible that they are currently able to snoop on WhatsApp either due to deep infiltration of various groups, small group size (256 only on WhatsApp), whereas Signal and Telegram would require a whole new set of interventions/iniltration?

Inquiring minds want to know ...

Those with MOD points - how could you NOT raise this to a +5 Funny? I am dying - laughing!

From the first three paragraphs of the second TFA:

When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn’t need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer firewall.

All he needed, said multiple intelligence community sources, was a few thumb drives and the willingness to exploit a gaping hole in an antiquated security system to rummage at will through the NSA’s servers and take 20,000 documents without leaving a trace.

“It’s 2013 and the NSA is stuck in 2003 technology,” said an intelligence official.

Doesn't look like he is portrayed as 'brilliant'. Just a bad quote taken from the article to 'made you look!'

I second this reference to http://www.winkflash.com./ I have used their service for many years and their quality is very, very good. I have experimented with Costco (used them for a long time), WalMart, CVS and Target. WinkFlash came out to be the least expensive - and they mail your stuff home. No need to trudge to the nearest location to pick up photos. Of course, the negative is that there is no instant gratification. The price at which they are most competitive is the 4 x 6.

As is normal with other online sites, you can save your pictures there etc. But the nice thing is that they have multiple sizes, canvases, books, calendars - all the additional features that online sites give you. I haven't tried most of the other formats.

Last but not least, their single click tweaking to make printed pictures seem better than what you see on screen, they have a setting called 'Enhancement' that tries to compensate for underexposed or overexposed pictures. It has worked for most of my pictures.

They have occasional sales - and no - I am not a salesman for WinkFlash - just a long-time customer.

This article also got Subramanian Swamy taken off the Harvard School professorship. No explanation offered. There was an online petition or two that got the support of many Harvard students and some of the staff. Harvard did not explain anything other than saying that the publication of the article.

My suspicion is that this has happened only because SS is not an American. Noam Chonsky of MIT has held similar firebrand views in the US - but his political views have not had him fired - because he is a Computer Science professor.

SS was a professor of Economics at Harvard - his article had nothing to do with Economics.

Censorship in the US anyone?

Indian Rediff

P.S. I suspect this will get me a Troll moderation - but please, read what I am saying a little dispassionately before rating me a troll. I am NOT supporting SS - but I DO support his right to free speech.

Salutations to your 4-digit UID :-)

I will answer your question by posting in my Journal. Apologies if this seems irreverent, but the phenomenon requires some writing. I hope you understand.
http://slashdot.org/journal/274686

IndianRediff

Mod parent up. The number of people that discount the short-term thinking of outsourcing cannot be overstated (parse that - hopefully I wrote it right).

I have looked time and again for over 10 years (having been laid off twice - once directly attributable to outsourcing and the second time to the current downswing) as to when this wave of outsourcng will change.

PHBs will look at the bottom line alone.

Let me give you an example. At a bank I worked at, we had a memo right from the top - for every local hire, there MUST be at least 7 overseas - otherwise the local hire is not allowed. I found the quality of work being done there sucked! Of the 800 odd people on various projects, there were more than 700 offshore - the rest were onshore - and I was privy to those rates. Offshore rates were 1/5 of the onshore equivalent. I remember one of the local bosses railing at one of the onshore representatives of the minions at the quality of code being delivered. It seems if a zero was entered into a field instead of a non-zero number, the web app would crash (or it was something equally stupid - please don't hold me to actual issue).

Given that these banks took such a large amount of money from US taxpayers, the least they should do is to ensure that any new jobs they have are given to onshore people. Instead, they have gone extreme - and are offshoring more than ever. Ingrates R Us.

Background: I am originally from India, one of the original outsourcers and have seen, with mine own eyes, the precipitous fall in quality of the offshore developers. Until about the mid- to late- 90s, things were not so bad. But Y2K changed all that. All and sundry became s/w developers. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Learning the news as I did this morning, I was in tears. I am not a fan of Apple (although I own an iPhone). But Steve Jobs has done in one lifetime, what many, many people put together could not do in many lifetimes. Any one of his achievements would qualify as genius. He has reinvented the term genius. Steve Jobs: May he rest in peace. My thoughts are with his family and with the Apple employees.

Indian Rediff

The old symbol for Rupee did not exist. You either said Re for Rupee (singular - but hardly used these days since the single Rupee is worth so little) or Rs for Rupees.

Side note: I remember in the old days on the IBM 1403 printers (running with the IBM 1401 machine) there was a symbol that used the space of one character and still printed Rs very close to each other. That was the closest that India ever came to having a symbol for the Rupee.

Until now.

The proposed symbol (which I believe looks very good) is symbolic of a few things:
1) The symbol looks like an R with the vertical leg removed and a horizontal line through it (much like the $ is simply an S with a vertical line | through it).
2) It is also the Hindi symbol for the first letter in the word Rupee in Hindi - with a line through it.

Hope this makes sense

Indian Rediff