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Comment Acoustic focus (Score 1) 552

by Miykayl (#24214341) Attached to: Alternative Uses For an Old Satellite Dish?

I'm stunned no one has yet mentioned it's use as an acoustic concentrator.

You could use it like one of those bionic ears, but the db gain would be absurdly high. Replace the LNA with a high-quality microphone.

THEN, you could point it at something REALLY interesting.. like... uh... a pigeon, or... uh... a squirrel...

And hear what they REALLY have to say... ...heh... I knew there was something conspiratorial about those squirrels... Don't get me started about the chipmonks.
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D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax Has Passed Away 512

Posted by Zonk from the tip-of-the-hat-roll-of-the-dice dept.
Mearlus writes "In the recent past co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons Gary Gygax has worked with Troll Lord Games, a small tabletop RPG publisher. Their forums have up a post noting that Mr. Gygax has apparently passed away. Gygax was known, along with Dave Arneson, as the Father of Roleplaying." Saddened reactions from well-known designers have already begun to appear online. Consider this is an in-memoriam Ask Slashdot question: How has D&D (and tabletop roleplaying) touched/improved your life? Update: 03/04 23:16 GMT by Z : With more time, official announcements have had time to appear. Many sites are featuring posts on Gygax's impact on gaming, including touching entries on Salon and CNet.
Transportation

How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected 674

Posted by Zonk from the zooom-zippy-fast dept.
loralai writes "Recent breakthroughs in scramjet engines could mean two-hour flights from New York to Tokyo. This technology, decades in the making, could redefine our understanding of air travel and military encounters. 'To put things in context, the world's fastest jet, the Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, set a speed record of Mach 3.3 in 1990 when it flew from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in just over an hour. That's about the limit for jet engines; the fastest fighter planes barely crack Mach 1.6. Scramjets, on the other hand, can theoretically fly as fast as Mach 15--nearly 10,000 mph.'"
Security

Submission + - Federal Agent's Raid Homes for Modchips (physorg.com)

Submitted by Lunatrik
Lunatrik writes: Invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, Federal Custom's Agents have raided over 30 homes and businesses looking to confiscate so-called 'mod chips', or other devices that allow the playback of pirated video games. This raises an important question: Are legitimate backup copies of a piece of software you own illegal under the DMCA?

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