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If only that were true. Sigh.

For awesome powa

Hasn't the majority of the internet already applied that twice?

For awesome powa

Unencrypted via http://www.rot13.com/

In an unprecedented move sure to shake up the world of particle physics, CERN announced on Monday that it will give away its newly-discovered Higgs boson particles in a lottery. But given the rarity of Higgs boson particles only one particle is created out of one million million collisions CERN will only be able to reward 10 lucky winners. 'At CERN, we have always believed in sharing the results of our research, and the time has come to make that tangible,' said CERN director of research Sergio Bertolucci. 'This is our way of saying thanks for the incredible level of enthusiasm that has greeted this discovery.

What I posted instead :)

http://www.rot13.com/index.php?text=uggc://gurcvengronl.bet/gbeerag/5904428/vend-jne-qvnel-erqnpgrq.pfi

I'll counter that with this:

I looked at a roster of my son's high school, and found all of the families that contained exactly 2 children, both of whom are students at the school.

a) I randomly selected one of these families. Their first child is a boy. What is the probability that the second one is a boy?

b) I randomly selected another of these families, and randomly selected a child from that family. He is a boy. What is the probability that the other is a boy?

This problem demonstrates that the motive and methods of the chooser may have a great deal to do with the resulting probability. The answer to a and b are identical. Know why?

[The answer is in Rot13. Click to decode.]
Zl fba tbrf gb na nyy oblf fpubby. Gurersber, gur punapr bs fryrpgvat n obl ner bar uhaqerq creprag.

Flying is easy if you're the only bird in the air.

Flocking is not easy. Thousands of flamingoes can fly together and land together without killing or maiming each other. I doubt that many humans can "flock" like that.

It's more like formation flying.

OK, you Slashdot folks are a smart group. Answer this simple question:

When ducks fly in formation, it's often a V pattern, with one side of the V slightly longer than the other side.

Why is that?

Orpnhfr gurer ner zber qhpxf ba gur ybatre fvqr.

If you're using any sort of skill to decipher that, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.rot13.com/

For those of you who don't get it, the Caesar Cipher is the origin of ROT13. You can decode the message above with this tool:

http://www.rot13.com/

Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.

No, you are wrong. Only Puhpx Abeevf could do this.

Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.

No, you are wrong. Only Puhpx Abeevf could do this.

It's not any sort of obfuscation. They just use some simple ROT13 on the answers. I've been able to get answers to my questions by checking the page source, copying the ROT13'd text in question, and pasting it into http://www.rot13.com./

v'z unysjnl gurer

There's always http://www.rot13.com/ ;)

Sabeq? =OP

So, what cool keyword searches do people like to have?

• Dozens for a couple small sites I use.
• Queries for common DB queries using PhpMyAdmin on box. (for example, 'ecdbqid' for looking up eC user by id; localdb just for PhpMyAdmin on localhost.)
• demd5 for a reverse md5 lookup (+ demd5a through demd5c in case it's not found in the first database).
• de for http://www.dict.cc/?s=%25s
• e2 for Everything2
• ol for Onelook
• anagram for http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagr am=%25s
• dns for http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=%25s
• Shortcuts for numerous Google searches, of course.
• rot13 for http://rot13.com/index.php?text=%25s
• ensv for http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=text&fr om=eng&to=swe&text=%25s (At some point, I intend to define keywords for all the combos, but I think I have to edit bookmarks.html directly to do that en masse.)

I didn't "work it out", I just had a link handy to the binary - text translator. Same as that, I have the awesoma powa of Rot13 to help me when I read ASR.

And no, I never take anything I read here for granted either.

Spoilers ROT13ed below:

Va gur tnzr, lbh ner gb ynaq lbhe fuvc ol gur qbjarq cvybgf. Bapr lbh unir ynaqrq, lbh'yy urne gur cvybgf jnyx hc gb lbhe fuvc. Lbh jrer gbyq gb jnvg hagvy gur cvybgf xabpx ba gur fvqr bs gur fuvc orsber lbh bcra gur qbbe naq yrg gurz va. Fb nsgre gur cvybgf jnyx hc, lbh ner yvfgravat vagragyl... Naq gura, CBJ! Na nyvra gung unq nyernq qvfcbfrq bs gur cvybg whzcf va sebag bs lbhe jvaqbj! Vs lbh qba'g ghea ba gur fuvryqf gb qvfcrafr jvgu uvz, ur pbzrf guebhtu gur jvaqbj gb qvfcrafr jvgu lbh.

You have not proven that you can distinguish between the two, only that you think you can.

But, you are wrong - your answer demonstrated that you CAN'T distinguish between bits from "art" and bits from "information." Because if you could, you would have written an answer that would have worked.

To keep things honest, I publically recorded the correct answer immediately after posting the challenge:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=200217&cid=164 47659

You'll find http://www.rot13.com/ to be helpful in understanding the answer and how you got it wrong.

(Word to the wise - don't ever try to bluff out somebody holding the proverbial nut flush.)

Too bad you got all caught up in your own cleverness and couldn't see the forest for the trees.

Perhaps now you might want to explain how a spreadsheet is different from "a work of art?" Seeing as how you so kindly quoted my question in your last message.

Behold the power of Rot 13! It's ten times more powerful than that weak Rot 3.

Vg jbexf terng! V uvtuyl erpbzzraq vg gb rirelbar. Vg znxrf zl qngn *irel* frpher.

(hint to the clueless: ROT13)

Looking for psy?
nyg.ovanevrf.fbhaqf.zc3.tbn-genapr
Use the secret decoder ring, batman!

Convert here

It is also referred to as ROT13 since you just move each character 13 spaces to the side.

Electricity
          |-----------|
          |...........|
    |--house1--|.....|
water|..........|gas..|
    |--house2--|.....|
          |...........|
          |-----------|

You are stuck in a room that has only 2 doors and 2 computers. One computer always tells the truth, and one computer always lies, but you do not know which computer is which. You can only ask one of the two computers a YES or NO question. If one door sets of a bomb, and the other door leads to freedom, what question do you ask that will always allow you to safely exit the room?

I have been planning a move to Cambodia!

(Specifically to Sihanookville, from Munich Germany, where I am currently an English teacher. [I'm 22].)

Please email me (rot13'd address: eiventu ng lnubb qbg pbz) if I could ask you a few questions.

Thanks!!

Bayl Abegu Xbernaf qb bhgfbheprq rapelcgvba!!!

We could just couple it with another widely used industry standard

Or just http://www.rot13.com/, if you don't mind sending your cleartext via HTTP.

In case, the article is /.ed ROT13 the encrypted text to get back the article :)
ROT13 en/decoder

Whoops, I spotted a second error in your calculations which I had carried into my calculation in my other reply to you. So my other reply has the wrong answer :(

The correct answer (I hope!):
Vg fubhyq or (AVARGRRA-avar) gvzrf (AVARGRRA-rvtug) rdhnyf bar uhaqerq naq gra, cyhf gur guerr qbhoyr fvmr fdhnerf. Svany gbgny bar uhaqerq naq guvegrra.

Decoding link.

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eiventu. At this domain. We can talk by phone after.

How's this for ROT-13?

Bu abrf! Yrkne = shknerq!

or did anyone else read that headline as 'Extended Rot13 Expected December 14'?

I was thinking that maybe folks had decided to use Rot13 as a replacement for MD5, or something.

Now that I think about it, that headline probably would probably read 'Rkgraqrq EbgX Rkcrpgrq Qrprzore 14' . . .

Put the name of the text file, ncevysbby, into this here Rot13 translator, and you will see that it spells aprilfool.

Guess they've never seen ROT13 before. =)

Rot13: Lbh pna orng gur ynfg obff guebhtu qvnybt. V qba'g erpnyy jung cngu gb gnxr fvapr vg'f orra lrnef, ohg lbh fubhyq or noyr gb jva jvgubhg guebjvat n chapu (be n sveronyy). Gurer zvtug or n erdhvfvgr nzbhag bs Jvfqbz gb trg gur qvnybt bcgvba, gubhtu, V qba'g xabj. Jura V cynlrq V nyjnlf gevrq gb znk bhg zl zragny fgngf gb trg gur zbfg bhg bs qvnybt.

But Cryptonomicon is not very science fiction-y.

Wrong. Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, and the Confusion is science-fiction.

Reason is ROT13'ed for spoilers.

Ubj znal cbyvgvpny rfcvbantr obbxf unir na vzzbegny punenpgre?

Rabpu Ebbg vf vzzbegny. Ur nyfb nccrnef gb unir gur cbjre gb envfr gur qrnq, ng yrnfg, Obool Funsgbr oryvrirf Rabpu unf guvf cbjre va Pelcgbabzvpba.

Va Dhvpxfvyire, ur unf nanpebavfgvp xabjyrqtr nobhg veba naq narzvn gung nccrnef gb or qryvorengr. Ur vf nyfb engure ybat yvirq naq va rkpryyrag pbaqvgvba sbe uvf ntr (fnzr nf va Pelcgbabzvpba.

Va gur Pbashfvba, Ybgune pbasvezf gung Rabpu vf vzzbegny nobhg unysjnl guebhtu gur obbx. (V unira'g svavfurq gur obbx, ohg gur pbire oyheo nyfb zragvbaf n cevrfg ergheavat sebz gur qrnq juvpu fbhaqf yvxr vg fubhyq vaibyir Rabpu.)

More importantly, I believe that Stephenson himself considers Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle SF for the reasons given above.

PS: ROT13 (de|en)coder link

rot13

http://www.rot13.com

Rot13.com, dude.

Anonymous Coward:

Hi, I'm wondering if you think there's a future for ROT13. I've heard it's pretty secure...


Paul:

While you may have figured out my super-secret ROT13 cipher, nobody will ever crack *this* message because I switched to our ultra-secret plan B: applying a Caeser cipher 13 times :-).


http://www.rot13.com/index.php

http://www.rot13.com/index.php gives you the awesoma powa of rot13.

http://www.rot13.com/index.php gives you the awesoma powa of rot13.

echo "Grkg" | tr '[n-za-mN-ZA-M]' '[a-zA-Z]'

so, for instance, you would decode his hint above with the command

echo "Na rzcgl cnffjbeq jvyy cnff guvf purpx orpnhfr gur pbqr hfrf gur yratgu
bs gur hfre ragel, abg gur yratg u bs gur pbeerpg cnffjbeq. Bgure cbgragvny
ceboyrzf (ohssre biresybjf, rgp.) ner yrsg nf na rkrepvfr sbe gur ernqre.
[Funzryrff cyht: Vs lbh rawbl ceboyrzf yvxr guvf, unir fgebat frphevgl
rkcrevrapr, pbzzhavp ngr jryy, naq jnag n wbo ng n sha (naq cebsvgnoyr)
pbzcnal, ivfvg uggc://jjj.pelcgbtencul.pbz/pbzcnal/pnerref.ugzy." |
tr '[n-za-mN-ZA-M]' '[a-zA-Z]'

Of course, you can also go to http://www.rot13.com/ and enter your text thar.

"unccl oveguqnl, ctc!"

To unencrypt, copy & paste your secret message at rot13.com. Oh, and ignore my sig--Phil will explain it to you when you are a little older...