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Comment Re:Let me predict here that this stuff does not wo (Score 1) 129

Even if it does work, it will use radio frequency interference. And an airport is full of RF equipment - Instrument Landing System, VOR, radars, pilot communications. Or they could be shooting down drones. The airport will have to be shut down because RF interference or bullets from anti-drone guns.

Comment QOS only affects outgoing traffic (Score 2) 126

QOS only affects outgoing packets. This is generally light traffic on a home network - mainly ACKS. QOS can not affect your incoming traffic, which usually has a far greater volume than incoming. In other words QOS has virtually no affect in a typical home environment. Its a marketing gimmick .

Comment Very weak presentation (Score 1) 631

This is a very weak talk to give at a University. Rather than talking about 'parallel programming' and adding an "It Sucks" button., I would expect a discussion on CSP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes or perhaps real time hard to guarantee responsiveness. This is the indoctrination you get when you work for Microsoft, you start spruiking low-level marketing jumbo-jumbo to a very technical audience.

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