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Re:The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers by kstenerud on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:34PM (#9389448)
That's why you send actual 802.11 messages instead of a continuous wave.
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Re:The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers by oh_sigh on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:01PM (#9391902)
And how do you determine your location based on an 802.11 message?
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Re:The Roomba for Lawns Is Really Pissing Off Astronomers by kstenerud on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:19AM (#9399720)
The same way you determine a location based on any regularly occurring radio signal (in fact, the same way they propose to determine location in their requested spectrum). The only reason to encode a proper 802.11 message would be so as not to interfere with other devices in range.
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