fair ... know any useful and/or popular NaCl usage?

except that the "more knowledgable expert", has had their power grid given the how you doing
Their pentagon email routed to another country and have their confidential files published on the internet.

kind of like going to a boxer that mike tyson (in his prime), wiped the floor with and asking him to train you .....
or
asking GM how to run a successful car making company

so we all need to work together to get rid of him, how about we frame him for a crime, lock him up a bit
To give the american gov time to come up with something to charge him with ....

relax dude, why are all your posten so serious

Is that Aurelius from the gladiator movie, or the real emperor ? seriously.

Do the Russians really want to kill him? It's embarrassing to the Americans, not the Russians.

This sounds like, if you don't do what I want, the big bad wolf will get you.
The big bad wolf is bad ... really bad, and he is going to hurt you, unless you do what ** I ** want

now come closer so I can protect you "but grandma what big teeth you have"

The Russians are probably laughing at the Americans and their leaks

If "The Russians play by different rules", then he is

Safe from assassinations, like the Americans tried with Castro
Safe from taken to an island, imprisoned without judicial oversight for a few years
Safe from kidnapping, flown to foreign countries and given a Spanish inquisition style interrogation
Safe from torture, in prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo bay
Safe from the white house making up some story and getting the "intelligence" agencies to rubber stamp it as true (... WMD in iraq)

all in all it's good news.

Since when does having high rates of corruption mean there are plenty of people willing to risk their lives, their families and jobs?
A more reaonable person, would think
In a country with an active and strong internal inteligence agency, little privacy, little human rights, plenty of cover up and run by a polite but a strong man.
People would be a little bit hesitant about leaking damaging documents

A reasonable person would think, if the russian government can imprison the yukos guy and take his money.
their richest, 16th richest in the world, and hence one of the most powerful people in russia. (copy 'n paste not working and I can't be bothered to type the wikipedia url)

Then I should shut the f up.

you are doing a character assination job on the guy, because of a tenuous guess to a hypothetical (the hypothetical being there are leaks from Russia **to** wikileaks)
Oh and yes, many people based in Australia and other countries run away and hide, when the venezuelan goverment is upset with them.
Yep venezuela is well known for assasinating forigners living outside of Venezuela.

yet somehow he (they) are not scared of china

You either watch too many movies or have ulterior motives.

I replied, so that perhaps your eyes (and your fellow country men & women) are opened, and you don't believe the propaganda, I don't mean offence or to put you or Hong Kong down.

sorry, but free world or free country is associated with democracy.
economic freedom or free market is different, a good thing (for the greater good) but different.
a free port, is also something else, that's a tax status.

corruption *perception* not sure how it's measured, but I presume it's not the same as actual corruption rates, in any event there are some democratic countries with higher *rates* of *actual* corruption than dictatorships.
UAE a kingdom is less corrupt than Israel, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan. Also Jordan a kingdom is less corrupt that Italy, Greece.
http://www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm

That government "thingy" is important for free / freedom, you can't just wave that aside as a small "thingy"!
How does Hong Kong rank for democratically elected government, how does it rank in freedom of speech, freedom of press?, civil liberty?

It ranks high, in money generating, foreign investment bringing ....
brb someone is at the door http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-17/us/websites.chinese.servers_1_web-traffic-china-telecom-security-review-commission?_s=PM:US

what about the projects helpfulness to new people and number of patches gathering dust in bugzilla
There are a few high profile projects that I'm discouraged from contributing to, as there are a lot of patches sitting in bugzilla for years.

It's too late if the hacker is from another country, those American organizations can't help you.
e.g. google china hack ( by the way a lot of other companies were affected ) how did those American organisations help undo or ensure it does not happen again ?

If your company isn't american then you have even less assistance then that.

Sure they can help you find out how it happened but the damage is done!

Great, can you provide a link to the open specs for rockets, space shuttles, satellites
How about the great open contributions by say the department for agriculture, commerce.

you are confusing releasing/contributing into open source / public domain and having all your work public domain.

The licensing costs will be paid for by earth's internet users, wonder what that is 50c a person ?
Whatever increase in prices it's a win for Australia, which get's a billion dollars.

If you want a country to subsidize the R&D an hence profits for foreign companies, lead the way.