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."

If you are part of IT world and never heard of Python, then God help your company. No, seriously.

Well, Firefox now comes with click-to-play feature so you can activate plugins on demand or white-list sites. Opera has it too. But it's not the point, OP was talking about removing the whole thing and it's just not an option.

Easy for you to say. Here in Norway we are required to have it to do online banking :(

It's not a nonsense. Maybe he used alot of GPL code in his project. He is no longer the only copyright holder in this case. And rewriting major parts of the program might not have been the option for him.

I'm going to disagree. Programming will teach kids the logic and logical thinking. Thus, I'm pretty sure they will excel in other subjects, especially math.

Release target seems to be Firefox 16, according to their wiki page. I had a few issues with a couple of sites in Firefox 15, I haven't tried nightly, but mostly it's working fine.

How about just go to about:config and set plugins.click_to_play to true to enable opt-ins plugins. I think Mozilla added it in Firefox 14. You can whitelist sites too (Page Info -> Permissions). And they're working on adding the ability to only enable plugins of a specific runtime (Flash, Java, Silverlight, etc).

What difference does it make if it wasn't used back then? It is used now.

If you're 5 months old, it's your first year on Earth. If you're 1 year and 3 months old, it's your second year on Earth. Year 2000 is the 2000th year. In order for us to say that two millennia have passed the year must end, thus the new millennium starts in 2001. There's no year 0, because it would mean the 0th year of Christ on Earth. Which means he did not exist, ergo BC.

We are talking about Gregorian calendar here. The year doesn't start at April 19. You are free to create whatever system you like, it wouldn't change the Gregorian calendar though. Therefore, it's a silly argument.

Except that year 2000 was still 20st century... you know, 21st century began on January 1, 2001.

"ÐÐÐs-751" should read "NIK-751" in Russian.

This is an active R&D test facility. The photo of the document which can be found on the blog says it's a "ÐÐÐs-751" (R&D test facility) and according to Energomash's website they had 21 tests there in 2011 and more tests were planned in 2012.

First of all, the guy who wrote the article is just clueless. No offense to him, but he sounded as one who has clearly no competence to speak on the matter.

Secondly, the panel only made a recommendation. The ICGA board plus WCCC tournament director acted like the jury. They agreed with the recommendation.

Thirdly, Ken Thompson was one of the members of the panel and I quote investigation report:

Here are some opinions of panel members recorded on the investigation wiki pages:
Ken Thompson:
After reading all the evidence, voted that he was convinced by the case against Rybka.

If you are going to call him an asshole, I'm definitely going to call you an idiot.

ICGA didn't f*ck up.

Fruit was a GPLed program until and including version 2.1. The investigation panel had compared Rybka 1.0 beta to Fruit 2.1, then they took a look at previous and later versions, including Rybka 2.3.2a to establish a pattern behavior. You can read all that has been done in the report: http://www.chessvibes.com/plaatjes/rybkaevidence/Rybka_Investigation_report.pdf

You'll be surprised how common this is.