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Open Sauce Foundation Created
First time accepted submitter TekTek writes "In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstrate to the tech, financial, and media communities that "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in their respective markets."
Is the article not interesting enough on its own merit to have to resort to gimmicks?
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Tybo-ny pbafbuhz.
Which date is today again?
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Have some of this.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
What is this?
Sounds like all open source projects in Boston
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I am officially gone from
Such effective cryptography!!!
Put big fucking X marks on the side of posts of people who obviously haven't read the earlier Rot13 post.
Yvahk/Havk hfref pna hfr gur sbyybjvat pbzznaq gb qrpbqr/rapbqr ebg13
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Wait, let me get me Google Glasses.
haha april fools day shinanigans going on here....
BZTCbavrf!!
You're kidding, right?
I am so tired of every news site thinking they have to come up with clever April Fool's Day articles. Today is going to be a long day.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
Svefg-vfu naljnl...
It's ROT13 so there's any number of websites that will instantly "decrypt" it for you, but really, it's a gag article that's not worth the effort.
It's sad that the height of slashdot april foolery was the Ponies skin.
We implemented Internet load-shedding at our university one April Fools.
Trying to become famous by taking photos. Visit my homepage please.
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jarfr oiausdf jjhqewr nkkzxv lam tweet indremo orly wtfx.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Yeah, but /. at least has (or had) a history of some interesting and playful pranks. Not quite as lame as today's is. Mine's double secure, I ROT-13'ed it twice!
From when I awoke, I knew this was going to be a bad day. But, I didn't know why.
I look at Slashdot and I am struck by the cold dark reality that it is April Fools Day.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop reading Reddit.
Heh... I'm happy to say that I thought my aging Ubuntu install actually has "rot13" installed by default, but then I realized it was just an alias for "tr" that I'd stuck in my .bashrc file many years ago. It's been a while....
Your Servant, B. Baggins
"I don't know what they were smoking when they came up with this "stunt"..."
Whatever it was, I think you need to smoke some of it ;)
Oh no... it's the future.
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I think so...I'm very, *very* slow... :-L
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
You'd think they would have ROT-13'd the headlines as well!
But no, /. half-asses it again.
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
First time accepted submitter tektek writes
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"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the open sauce foundation (osf). Founding members include mcilhenny company (producer of tabasco brand pepper sauce), huy fong foods (producer of "rooster brand" sriracha sauce), and kikkoman (producer of kikkoman brand soy sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstrate to the tech, financial, and media communities that "open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in their respective markets."
ROT13 Decryption is relatively easy. Do it 2 or 3 Times, or don't use only a shift of 13, then you might have something
Why not have:
"SAHH DAU PDANA OHWODZKPPAN."
Clue:
I do NOT think two 11s would make a GOOD 7.
We use to do this in ARG's. The Clue would read Negative 11 and a Positive 7 were used.
Load up a ROT13 decryption site like ,web.forret.com/tools/rot13.asp.
Use shift 7 decryption then copy the results and use a -11 shift a decryption and you get
Well, find out yourself.
You weren't going to RTFA anyway.
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
This is just fucking stupid. Enough with the rot13 bullshit already.
...it downloads Bieber's back catalogue! NO DON'T!
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
doesn't look much different from the usual summaries posted on Slashdot.
What we need is glasses that decrypt "Whiter whites! Brighter brights!" into "We added a little more bleach, a bucketload of fragrance, and slapped it in a fancier box in order to charge you more."
It's a substitution cipher:
Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Cipher: nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm
The post reads:
First time accepted submitter TekTek writes
"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstarate to the tech, financial, and media communities the "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in thir respective markets."
"It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad."
Yes, clever, except that everyone knows the makers of Sriracha sauce sue anybody trying to use the name, even hot-sauce makers from the town of Si Racha. That's the very antithesis of open.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Well, it would be the same as having googlasses do "on-the-fly decrypting" of QR-codes in your glasses field of view so that you have the web-page or URL it links to automatically flashing in yo' goo-goggles. Or doing the same auto-linking for UPC codes on products, or ISBN numbers if you look at a magazine or a book.
;>)
It's like being able to carry around a cueCat with you at all times and using it to scan everything and immediately getting the linked web-page or associated web-searches. Goo-glasses just takes the hassle of carrying the CueCat + laptop + internet-access-portal-device with you into the coolness-of-being-a-hipster-dude who wears funky glasses!
Open Source, from Boston
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I just realized that the ROT13 text looks a lot like the incantation to summon Cthulhu. I would suggest that people be a little more careful with using ROT13 (note that it even has 13 in the name). Who knows what sort of elder horror might be summoned.
un-ALTERED reproduction and dissimination of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED
"In response to the growing proliferation of the use of "secret sauce" as a vehicle for entrepreneurs', venture capitalists', and investment bankers' thinly veiled proprietary machinations, a global consortium of premium condiment manufacturers has launched the Open Sauce Foundation (OSF). Founding members include McIlhenny Company (producer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce), Huy Fong Foods (producer of "Rooster Brand" Sriracha sauce), and Kikkoman (producer of Kikkoman brand Soy Sauce). The new foundation's stated aim is not only to uphold the virtues of buying worthy sauce manufacturers' products, but to demonstrate to the tech, financial, and media communities that "Open" companies, and condiments, can, and do, assume leadership roles in their respective markets."
Fake news all day.
It is no longer funny.
I am only reminded that on April one, I look for an alternative site that is not shutdown for the day.
Not OP, but in a similar boat. While I see the "Click for a FREE PREVIEW of the decrypted version of this story!" link, it just takes me right back to this "encrypted" version. Curiously, I also see that link when not logged in.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
Thank-you Slashdot, for being so lame on April Fool's that we can just ignore you and get some work done.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Except here, for we have replaced "midnight" with "naan"...
We have? I'm going to have to have words with the owner of the Punjabi restaurant across the street, they close at 9...
0 1 - just my two bits
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PS replies in ROT-26 please
To be, or not to be: isn't that quite logical, Slashdot Beta?
alternatively you can just draw all your a's as n's and all your r's as c'c, etc. as the latin alphabet is composed of a bunch of arbitrary shapes. why don't you learn some new arbitrary shapes? You already know at least four ways to write the letter A. The upper-case form, two minuscule (lower-case) forms (roman, like a computer font, and italic like hand written), and cursive (related to italic).