[time-nuts] How are you going to spend your extra second?

[Mark Sims]

The acoustic gunfire systems are neat.  A lot of them are located on cell phone towers.  I played around (just for fun) with a time-of-arrival system using a PC sound card and locating a beeper/cell phone inside an auditorium once.  Worked fairly well.  Echoes are a problem in the real world.
Unfortunately these system are rather useless on New Years eve...  overwhelmed by the ruccus.  To see what they are up against check out this youtube recording of last year in Garland, Texas (a medium sized  suburb of Dallas).  And by the way,  the amount of gunfire is way down over the last few years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvaZs-2vxc

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