load01 03/22/2012

• Is Boeing’s 737 an Airplane Prone to Problems? - Print View - The Daily Beast

  The plane is America’s most popular model. But aviation experts worry that America’s most popular airplane is prone to cracks in its skin. An investigative report.

  tags: news

• WqBoX.png (798×602)

  Reserved (i.imgur.com)
  submitted 6 hours ago by McWhalersFan to pics
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  tags: culture

• OpenBSD bug in the random() function - Banu Blog

  I now work for ISC through Banu (which handles my payroll and some other stuff in India). These days, among other things, we're trying to get BIND 10 to work on OpenBSD. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a bug in random() on OpenBSD (tested with OpenBSD 5.0 on amd64). The bug is that if you call srandom(0) to initialize the RNG, random() will always return 0. Here is a testcase:

  tags: programming

• CraftStudio - Real-time collaborative game-making -- Indiegogo

  Games with user-generated content like Minecraft, Little Big Planet or Trackmania have made it clear that lots of gamers are creative at their heart and that, provided with the right tools, you guys can and want to build awesome stuff.
  
  User-made maps are great, but we can do better! Introducing...
  
  Real-time collaborative ga

  tags: technology

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