The whole thing is a CIA plot to replace the government of North Korea.
The plan is to get a whole bunch of IP rights in North Korea. When they later apply to the North Korean courts to enforce those rights, the entire North Korean government will die laughing.
Politicians know exactly how to keep a promise...
...and they are faithfully keeping every promise they've made to those who have bankrolled their elections campaign.
which terrorists have you been in communications with?
The funny thing is that none of the documents Snowden has leaked have revealed anything that could be considered a legitimate intelligence operation. What they have revealed is a massive illegal intelligence operation that at best makes any legitimate intelligence operation harder by burying important clues in a tsunami of irrelevant details.
Why don't they just classify it. That would make it disappear, at least as far as the government is concerned.
If he did, he'd have to admit to unauthorized access to classified documents.
>The Government may not be legally allowed to execute the guy
Um, yes, they are. It's called targeted killing.
United States Bill of Rights, Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The government cannot simply decide to kill someone without violating the constitution. Not that that seems to bother them very much these days.
He'd have to get the document first. all he's allowed to do is look at it, not make copies.
Now we're seeing why 'military intelligence' is considered an oxymoron.
You could look at each spot where a change might be bade as on bit.Make a change for a one, not make the change for a zero. If the goal is to identify each copy uniquely, you need a lot of possible change spots. Sixteen spots would allow for up to 65535 copies, which is probably a small run for an ebook. Will it be possible to find sixteen or more spots to change? Maybe. It will really dependva lot on the nature of the book.
Will it be possible to remove this tracking? Certainly. I'd even call it trivial to remove. Given several copies of the book,with different changes, a simple script could identify and correct the changes in seconds.
That's how the government eliminates crime. Sweep the real crimes under the rug, and stomp hard on anyone who dares point out that a crime occurred. Once nobody reports any crimes, the government can claim success because there are no reports of crimes.
The problem with that statement is that it's NOT Obama. The real problem is with the entire political process in the USA. Until such time as politicians don't have to depend on financial donations to stay in office, they will continue dancing to the tune of those with the cash to buy elections.
It's looking more and more like the history books in 2050 will record 9-11 as America's version of the Reichstag fire
He'll probably get the last three digits of that amount.
Google looks more like secretive mega-corporation that doesn't want to share the valuable data it has collected. I'll leave it to you to make your own decicion as to wether the reason is to protect your privacy or to be greedy and keep everything for itself.
Either way, the result is the same.
Sure, let the management have a share of the tips...
...but only if ALL workers are paid at least the minimum wage.
Iraq: a country that DID use WMDs, DID harbor international terrorists, DID invade other countries (twice), and DID commit genocide. The Iraq War wasn't only not illegal, it was technically mandated by the UN genocide convention. What was illegal was anyone voting against it. Don't let Bush's bumbling confuse you into thinking it was an illegal war.
The United States is the only country to use nuclear weapons in battle, and still has the world's largest stockpile of them.
The United States government ignored requests to extradite Luis Carriles to face terrorism charges. Oh, and don't forget about The School of the Americas
The United States government overthrew the government of Iraq in 1963, bringing Saddam Hussein to power. The US also overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953. There are at least a dozen other times and places where the United States has intervened in the governments of other countries.
Even a simple scan of the history of the United States will show the blatant genocide commited against the native tribes of the US midwest and west.
By your logic, the rest of the world is not only permitted, but obligated to invade the United States and replace the government.
They get a paid vacation because they are innocent until proven guilty in court, so you can't punish them. At the same time, the allegations have so damaged their reputation that they are useless in any sort of law enforcement role.
Re: foreigners likely actually DO have rights under the constitution
Most of the United States Constitution doesn't even apply to US citizens, and never did. When you read the constitution, you find that it's really a list of things the government is required to do, along with a bunch of things the goverment is forbidden to do. For example, US citizens do not have the right to speak freely. Instead, the United States Government is forbidden to restrict what people may say. The only way this can be applied to only US citizens is if the United States considers everyone not a US citizen to be somehow not a person.
Then again, given how little the US military seems to care about the harm done to innocent civilians in the war on terror, maybe the government does see non US citizens as subhuman.