It's give and take. Google, in offering search to millions of users, once in a while requests a copy of a page as so to index it.
In the case of you searching Google; You're paying for the downstream, they're paying for the upstream. In the case of them indexing a page, they're paying for the downstream, you're paying for the upstream.
In both cases, both Google's ISP and yours makes money.
What the ISPs are asking for amounts to "I see you run a successful business, and make millions of dollars. Cut us in or we make a bunch of your customers unhappy and tell them it's your fault so they run screaming to your competitor, who will pay us.". Call it whatever you like, it boils down to "protection money".
All the whining about "infrastrusture" and "investment in new capacity" boils down to "We think you should pay more for bandwidth because you make money off it"
And the slashbots all stand up and cheer while a big company lies, cheats, and bribes in order to steal a basement inventor's legacy from his widow.
There isn't a part in any of the patent claims that isn't obvious now, and wasn't obvious fifteen years ago. The fact it was a "basement inventor" doesn't make the patent more worthy than one filed by a "big evil company".
The NARA are probably ill equipped to handle it, and to do it themselves means a bigger budget. Also, this is the government we're talking about. To get said funding would require twelve months of study. Then twelve months of bickering about outsourcing it. Finally, about 2010, they'd contract it out to some firm that would insist as part of recouping the cost they retained limited sale rights to the material once transferred as a pork project, and we'd see it online for $149.99 on locked down SHDDVD2 in 2012.
But, if Google does it, we get reasonable quality copies online for no money now. The public retains their right to the work. Win win.
I've owned exactly what you propose. Back in.. It was probably 1995.
9 inches long, about as big around as a Red Bull can. Big thick SCSI cable that weighed more than the scanner connected it to a little parallel port SCSI board the manufacturer had bought in bulk from AT&T. Did black and white at like 200 dpi, cheesy 256 greyscale at less.
If the paper was thin, the scanner wouldn't grab it. If the paper was thick, it sounded like the scanner was going to have a heart attack. If you weren't scanning something 8 1/2 inches wide, it always came out crooked. Hell, it always came out crooked even with standard letter size, but it wasn't noticible unless you looked for it.
But.. It fit in the laptop bag. You could run without AC with a cable rigged to the keyboard port to replace the wall wart. The software that it came with generally just worked. No image stitching required. And it was always better and faster than a ScanMan..
Look around amongst your peers, mention "Sony rootkit" or "DRM" and check how many blank stares you receive.
I work about the last place you'd expect to be tech savvy: A railroad, surrounded by union truck drivers, most of which are pushing retirement age.
I'd say most of them own a home computer. Of the ones that own a PC, most could reinstall the OS without trouble. They all know about spyware, and I've heard at least one "AdAware vs. Spybot" zealotry argument. At least one of them reads/., and I've traded mp3s with a few of em.
I could walk into the break room and say "Sony rootkit" and probably three quarters of them would know exactly what I was talking about.
The reach is getting bigger, boys and girls. The second their digital TVs break, or their mp3s no longer work, the blue collar slice of America will know and complain, rest assured.
I've tried the 12 and 14 hour day.. Couldn't do 'em.
One odd one I have found worked for me was the "48 hour day". Did it while working graveyard for probably six months when I had three non-sequential days off (Wed, Sat/Sun). Wake up 11pm Monday, work a 10, goof off for 12 hours in the daylight, work a 10, crash for 12 hours and repeat. (Four one hour drives to and from work). The last day off was either catch a four hour nap in the afternoon or go to bed a little early and catch 14 leading into the week. Didn't drink too much coffee, didn't get cranky, wasn't too dull-headed at the end of the second work day.
Right now my sleep schedule is all fouled; My girlfriend works days, I'm on nights, and none of the days off match. So I end up doing things like staying up 24 hours straight every Wednesday to flip back to sleeping nights on the weekend so I still have a sex life. I drink waaay too much caffeine with the irregular system, and am a total asshole some mornings, but meh.
Sadly, the DMCA specifically exempts law enforcement from the anti-circumvention prohibition. So even if you were able to convince a judge the trooper had disabled some access control device in order to clock you at 90mph on I5, it would still be kosher.
Just get a trifold wallet. Put a piece of folded aluminum foil the size of a standard payroll check in with your cash.
Wallet closed, RFID defeated.
Need to RFID your way through a turnstile or into work? Open the wallet.
Need to RFID your way through a lot of doors? Fold the wallet into an S shape with the pocket holding the RFID card out, and stick it back into your pants. The RFID cards in the center pockets and other side will still be wrapped in foil, and unreadable.
That "suction cup thingy" is a cover for one side of the high voltage transformer. If the caps on the other side of the transformer are still retaining a charge, grounding it for a moment will do the trick and render the unit safer to work on.
The tech is probably doing what I used to do; Take the clip end of a resistive antistatic strap, clip it to a screwdriver. Slip cuff side tight over grounded metal workbench. With fingers well away from the blade of the screwdriver, slip it under the cup till you hear "POP!". Wait 20s, do it again. No pop, cool bones.
There are other capacitors in monitors other than the ones used for the high voltage supply to the CRT. Those still may contain dangerous voltages, even after you have discharged the one connected to the flyback transformer. But accidentally poking yourself on one of those looking for a dead component is not likely to kill you or permanently damage the monitor, so.
Warning follows:
I once powercycled a monitor I was testing and forgot to redischarge it before working on it again the same day. I woke up a few minutes later, five feet away, and the arm that held the slightly discolored screwdriver hurt like I had been attempting one armed pullups for the better part of the afternoon. If the unit had been live, I shudder to think.
Very nice trick with the television. Probably cheaper than cable to boot.:)
Just wait for one of them to figure out they can get broadcast television by sticking a wire into one of the jacks on the VCR though.
When it comes to getting into things, never underestimate the craftiness of a kid.
A friend had her nine year old shoulder-surf her password so she could watch Mommy's collection of anime. I don't think the daughter ever got caught for it, fessed up on her own when she asked for a copy of something on DVD.
A coworkers 11 year old learned all about SAM crackers at the library and Administrator'd himself to turn off the proxy software and browse. Only got caught after a month when some porn site installed malware.
When my family got cable TV in 1983/84, my mother would take the cable box to bed with her. That didn't save her long, I bought a broken one with my allowance ($10 box of odds and ends at a garage sale), stuffing it in a case left over from a busted disc drive and running speaker wire through the floor to tap the coax and watch cable on my amber monitor.
I finally got her to let me get a real modem in 1986, to replace a rubber cup 120/300 baud unit Dad had brought me when the company he worked for retired their Altair clone. She would unplug the phone line to the house if she was going to be gone long, because as she put it, "I've seen War Games, mister. I don't want you ending up in Juvy because you called NASA.". So I got real good at picking Master Locks to plug it back in.
I got my first taste of the real internet about a year later during a summer program held by a university. No matter how much pleading went on, she wasn't going to let me use it at home, convinced this time I was going to run her into the poor house sending mail to Europe. No matter how I explained it, she was sure that she was going to see a long distance charge for a call to China. So I signed up for a VAX account without her knowledge and "borrowed" a copy of Xenix so I could use SLIP. (They issued the account even with the form indicating I was ten years old, I still don't understand why.)
They'll shoulder surf you. They'll crack the machine. They'll buy a $20 WiFi dongle with their saved lunch money so they can use the neighbors internet connection.
FTW is "For The Win". Common enough in MMOGs and message boards these days. It's normally used sarcastically.
Some common uses and translations.
"Inc four a Shissar Guardian FTW!" == "I am running at you with four NPCs that can easily kill us. I suck" "w00t, [Flimsy Chain Pants] FTW!" == "Wow, some really crappy pants" "Godwin FTW" == "That idiot just compared someone to Hitler. Discussion over, he loses. Jackass"
Gen. Hayden: I can say unequivocally, all right, that we have got information through this program that would not otherwise have been available.
So he got information he didn't already have. So what. It could have been anything from the bust size of a 1930's pinup girl to the fact the wiretap recipient likes to say "unh hun, and then what?" every five seconds while his mother in law is on the phone to piss her off.
The fact they obtained information doesn't mean it was useful, or legally, or morally correct to collect it.
Did they get real, actionable information they acted upon to save the United States from another 9/11 disaster? Nope. Or else they'd have trumpeted it all day long.
Nixon?! Lucky bastards. I once lived in a place much worse. Positivly Roosevelt administration. (The newest building wiring was old enough FDR could have used it, and the oldest smacked of Teddy). Ladder line. Green glass insulators and thick copper, reused from old electrical runs. You knew when the neighbors arrived home, the modem would cut out from crosstalk. Once it left the building, it ran inches from the power drop to the next building.
9600 on a 33.6 modem meant I was having a good day.
weeping the room with an AM radio,while switching channels.... hello? other frequency ranges?
Actually, this used to work with early miniature transmitters. In an effort to keep them small, very little attention was paid to what undesirable RF was being thrown off by the device.
You'll probably see only 10% of those machines in each month, peak, unless something catastrophically infests your network. That's 1.5 per day. Well, actually.. Figure four on Monday, and three spread over the week. They always catch something and need a reinstall after a weekend.
You can probably handle that with a manual cloning process if the cloned image doesn't change too often and the machines carry DVD ROM drives in them. Clean install to a spare machine (there are some ways described elsewhere in this thread to seriously cut down on the amount of junk data on a image; So long as the installed files don't exceed say 4Gb, you're fine no matter the disc size), dd the disc image off, then use something like a modified tomsrbt image to dd it back.
Having said this, the older versions of Norton Ghost rocked.
The problem is RIM and the carriers have no real easy way to just keep government users on. In lots of cases, the only thing that says "this device is the property of the US Government" is the billing address. Sometimes even that isn't tell-tale, there are lots of smaller exempt agencies where the Blackberry bill is sent to the user and lots of cases where there are separate billing and mail-the-bill to addresses. Your billing address is used by some carriers to establish who you are, and that you are the user of the device calling them for support, so it's typically set to something friendly to the users, like the address of their office.
I mean, say you have a RIM device billing to Jane Doe, 18023 Aurora Ste E, Lynnwood, and another billing to Dave Martin, 18023 Aurora, Lynnwood, and a third, billing to Steve Ellis, 18023 Aurora Ste E, Seattle.
Which do you turn off? Which ones belong to WA State? If you can't tell easily, how can the carrier?
But is he so bad? Without him in the White House to declare a state religion, overturn half the important court decisions of the last century by executive fiat, the vast majority of the country will be condemned to eternal damnation for their sinful ways! With him there, only the Christians who sold their souls to Him will boil, everyone else legislatively goaded into Heaven!
Hey, I'd deal with eight years of radical Christian legislative climate if it meant a thousand years of debauchery after! Err.. So that means I get my debauchery in aught eight, right?
I didn't know there was an actual word for those people. The only people I have met with that particular dietary habit have been confused college students in bars. After they droned for five minutes on how meat is bad and then proceed to order the fish and a salad they were written off as twits.
In Mr. Jobs defense, or perhaps in my own,I thought he was plain old vegetarian.
If I invited those three to a party, and could theoretically get them all to show.
Steve Jobs would bring beer. He'd smoke a little, drink a little, and play pool with random folks while yammering away about random bull. . Definitly invited back. Steve Ballmer would smoke everyone elses weed, drink whatever beer was first up in the fridge, and act nervous about it. Eventually he'd get knocked enough to loosen up, and after dancing wildly on tables, hitting on a long-haired dude he would swear later was "hot", puke in a potted plant and pass out somewhere. Mabye invited back once. Only if the theoretical potted plant lives, and only then to rib him about it. Darl would bring his own weed, a bag of really badly faded skank. He'd leave it on the kitchen counter. After a joint or two, he'd get paranoid and accuse folks of ganking his stash. He'd get tossed for picking a fight with a random partygoer and proceed to call the cops from his Beemer, claiming he'd been robbed of his pot. Of course, when the police respond, there's the baggie of pot on his dashboard. Not invited back.
But you're paying the radio company, who *is* paying the RIAA.. Whereas terrestrial broadcasters pay the RIAA nothing. They're already making more money than they would be allowed under the old system. This is just another power grab.
What he's doing is redefining certain things as ratios, other things as the equivalent of atan(), etc. You'd still need the lookup tables, they'd just contain different numbers and be evaluated with a different expression.
It's probably easier to understand for someone that doesn't know trig to start, but it's not less computationally intensive to get the result in either system.
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Hey, it gets you 23' up in the air,
Lift kits; They're not just for ground clearance anymore!
It's give and take. Google, in offering search to millions of users, once in a while requests a copy of a page as so to index it.
In the case of you searching Google; You're paying for the downstream, they're paying for the upstream. In the case of them indexing a page, they're paying for the downstream, you're paying for the upstream.
In both cases, both Google's ISP and yours makes money.
What the ISPs are asking for amounts to "I see you run a successful business, and make millions of dollars. Cut us in or we make a bunch of your customers unhappy and tell them it's your fault so they run screaming to your competitor, who will pay us.". Call it whatever you like, it boils down to "protection money".
All the whining about "infrastrusture" and "investment in new capacity" boils down to "We think you should pay more for bandwidth because you make money off it"
And the slashbots all stand up and cheer while a big company lies, cheats, and bribes in order to steal a basement inventor's legacy from his widow.
There isn't a part in any of the patent claims that isn't obvious now, and wasn't obvious fifteen years ago. The fact it was a "basement inventor" doesn't make the patent more worthy than one filed by a "big evil company".
Obvious patents are bad.
The NARA are probably ill equipped to handle it, and to do it themselves means a bigger budget. Also, this is the government we're talking about. To get said funding would require twelve months of study. Then twelve months of bickering about outsourcing it. Finally, about 2010, they'd contract it out to some firm that would insist as part of recouping the cost they retained limited sale rights to the material once transferred as a pork project, and we'd see it online for $149.99 on locked down SHDDVD2 in 2012.
But, if Google does it, we get reasonable quality copies online for no money now. The public retains their right to the work. Win win.
I've owned exactly what you propose. Back in.. It was probably 1995.
9 inches long, about as big around as a Red Bull can. Big thick SCSI cable that weighed more than the scanner connected it to a little parallel port SCSI board the manufacturer had bought in bulk from AT&T. Did black and white at like 200 dpi, cheesy 256 greyscale at less.
If the paper was thin, the scanner wouldn't grab it. If the paper was thick, it sounded like the scanner was going to have a heart attack. If you weren't scanning something 8 1/2 inches wide, it always came out crooked. Hell, it always came out crooked even with standard letter size, but it wasn't noticible unless you looked for it.
But.. It fit in the laptop bag. You could run without AC with a cable rigged to the keyboard port to replace the wall wart. The software that it came with generally just worked. No image stitching required. And it was always better and faster than a ScanMan..
Look around amongst your peers, mention "Sony rootkit" or "DRM" and check how many blank stares you receive.
/., and I've traded mp3s with a few of em.
I work about the last place you'd expect to be tech savvy: A railroad, surrounded by union truck drivers, most of which are pushing retirement age.
I'd say most of them own a home computer. Of the ones that own a PC, most could reinstall the OS without trouble. They all know about spyware, and I've heard at least one "AdAware vs. Spybot" zealotry argument. At least one of them reads
I could walk into the break room and say "Sony rootkit" and probably three quarters of them would know exactly what I was talking about.
The reach is getting bigger, boys and girls. The second their digital TVs break, or their mp3s no longer work, the blue collar slice of America will know and complain, rest assured.
I've tried the 12 and 14 hour day.. Couldn't do 'em.
One odd one I have found worked for me was the "48 hour day". Did it while working graveyard for probably six months when I had three non-sequential days off (Wed, Sat/Sun). Wake up 11pm Monday, work a 10, goof off for 12 hours in the daylight, work a 10, crash for 12 hours and repeat. (Four one hour drives to and from work). The last day off was either catch a four hour nap in the afternoon or go to bed a little early and catch 14 leading into the week. Didn't drink too much coffee, didn't get cranky, wasn't too dull-headed at the end of the second work day.
Right now my sleep schedule is all fouled; My girlfriend works days, I'm on nights, and none of the days off match. So I end up doing things like staying up 24 hours straight every Wednesday to flip back to sleeping nights on the weekend so I still have a sex life. I drink waaay too much caffeine with the irregular system, and am a total asshole some mornings, but meh.
Sadly, the DMCA specifically exempts law enforcement from the anti-circumvention prohibition. So even if you were able to convince a judge the trooper had disabled some access control device in order to clock you at 90mph on I5, it would still be kosher.
Just get a trifold wallet. Put a piece of folded aluminum foil the size of a standard payroll check in with your cash.
Wallet closed, RFID defeated.
Need to RFID your way through a turnstile or into work? Open the wallet.
Need to RFID your way through a lot of doors? Fold the wallet into an S shape with the pocket holding the RFID card out, and stick it back into your pants. The RFID cards in the center pockets and other side will still be wrapped in foil, and unreadable.
But what if I'm an engineer at Dell?
Then the question becomes
"What the hell are you still doing at work? It's like midnight in New Delhi!"
That "suction cup thingy" is a cover for one side of the high voltage transformer. If the caps on the other side of the transformer are still retaining a charge, grounding it for a moment will do the trick and render the unit safer to work on.
The tech is probably doing what I used to do; Take the clip end of a resistive antistatic strap, clip it to a screwdriver. Slip cuff side tight over grounded metal workbench. With fingers well away from the blade of the screwdriver, slip it under the cup till you hear "POP!". Wait 20s, do it again. No pop, cool bones.
There are other capacitors in monitors other than the ones used for the high voltage supply to the CRT. Those still may contain dangerous voltages, even after you have discharged the one connected to the flyback transformer. But accidentally poking yourself on one of those looking for a dead component is not likely to kill you or permanently damage the monitor, so.
Warning follows:
I once powercycled a monitor I was testing and forgot to redischarge it before working on it again the same day. I woke up a few minutes later, five feet away, and the arm that held the slightly discolored screwdriver hurt like I had been attempting one armed pullups for the better part of the afternoon. If the unit had been live, I shudder to think.
Very nice trick with the television. Probably cheaper than cable to boot. :)
Just wait for one of them to figure out they can get broadcast television by sticking a wire into one of the jacks on the VCR though.
When it comes to getting into things, never underestimate the craftiness of a kid.
A friend had her nine year old shoulder-surf her password so she could watch Mommy's collection of anime. I don't think the daughter ever got caught for it, fessed up on her own when she asked for a copy of something on DVD.
A coworkers 11 year old learned all about SAM crackers at the library and Administrator'd himself to turn off the proxy software and browse. Only got caught after a month when some porn site installed malware.
When my family got cable TV in 1983/84, my mother would take the cable box to bed with her. That didn't save her long, I bought a broken one with my allowance ($10 box of odds and ends at a garage sale), stuffing it in a case left over from a busted disc drive and running speaker wire through the floor to tap the coax and watch cable on my amber monitor.
I finally got her to let me get a real modem in 1986, to replace a rubber cup 120/300 baud unit Dad had brought me when the company he worked for retired their Altair clone. She would unplug the phone line to the house if she was going to be gone long, because as she put it, "I've seen War Games, mister. I don't want you ending up in Juvy because you called NASA.". So I got real good at picking Master Locks to plug it back in.
I got my first taste of the real internet about a year later during a summer program held by a university. No matter how much pleading went on, she wasn't going to let me use it at home, convinced this time I was going to run her into the poor house sending mail to Europe. No matter how I explained it, she was sure that she was going to see a long distance charge for a call to China. So I signed up for a VAX account without her knowledge and "borrowed" a copy of Xenix so I could use SLIP. (They issued the account even with the form indicating I was ten years old, I still don't understand why.)
They'll shoulder surf you. They'll crack the machine. They'll buy a $20 WiFi dongle with their saved lunch money so they can use the neighbors internet connection.
FTW is "For The Win". Common enough in MMOGs and message boards these days. It's normally used sarcastically.
Some common uses and translations.
"Inc four a Shissar Guardian FTW!" == "I am running at you with four NPCs that can easily kill us. I suck"
"w00t, [Flimsy Chain Pants] FTW!" == "Wow, some really crappy pants"
"Godwin FTW" == "That idiot just compared someone to Hitler. Discussion over, he loses. Jackass"
Gen. Hayden: I can say unequivocally, all right, that we have got information through this program that would not otherwise have been available.
So he got information he didn't already have. So what. It could have been anything from the bust size of a 1930's pinup girl to the fact the wiretap recipient likes to say "unh hun, and then what?" every five seconds while his mother in law is on the phone to piss her off.
The fact they obtained information doesn't mean it was useful, or legally, or morally correct to collect it.
Did they get real, actionable information they acted upon to save the United States from another 9/11 disaster? Nope. Or else they'd have trumpeted it all day long.
Nixon?! Lucky bastards. I once lived in a place much worse. Positivly Roosevelt administration. (The newest building wiring was old enough FDR could have used it, and the oldest smacked of Teddy). Ladder line. Green glass insulators and thick copper, reused from old electrical runs. You knew when the neighbors arrived home, the modem would cut out from crosstalk. Once it left the building, it ran inches from the power drop to the next building.
9600 on a 33.6 modem meant I was having a good day.
weeping the room with an AM radio,while switching channels.... hello? other frequency ranges?
Actually, this used to work with early miniature transmitters. In an effort to keep them small, very little attention was paid to what undesirable RF was being thrown off by the device.
It's a nonlinear function all right. This is my best approximation of the curve.
For n>3, n(Coors) = 1
For n=3, n(Coors) = -1
For n3, n(Coors) = -1
For n=0, n(Coors) = 2
You're always better off never having consumed the first, but if you have one, you might as well drink the whole six pack.
Of course, you also have to consider the hangover curve when imbibing Coors. That one is exponential.
You'll probably see only 10% of those machines in each month, peak, unless something catastrophically infests your network. That's 1.5 per day. Well, actually.. Figure four on Monday, and three spread over the week. They always catch something and need a reinstall after a weekend.
You can probably handle that with a manual cloning process if the cloned image doesn't change too often and the machines carry DVD ROM drives in them. Clean install to a spare machine (there are some ways described elsewhere in this thread to seriously cut down on the amount of junk data on a image; So long as the installed files don't exceed say 4Gb, you're fine no matter the disc size), dd the disc image off, then use something like a modified tomsrbt image to dd it back.
Having said this, the older versions of Norton Ghost rocked.
The problem is RIM and the carriers have no real easy way to just keep government users on. In lots of cases, the only thing that says "this device is the property of the US Government" is the billing address. Sometimes even that isn't tell-tale, there are lots of smaller exempt agencies where the Blackberry bill is sent to the user and lots of cases where there are separate billing and mail-the-bill to addresses. Your billing address is used by some carriers to establish who you are, and that you are the user of the device calling them for support, so it's typically set to something friendly to the users, like the address of their office.
I mean, say you have a RIM device billing to Jane Doe, 18023 Aurora Ste E, Lynnwood, and another billing to Dave Martin, 18023 Aurora, Lynnwood, and a third, billing to Steve Ellis, 18023 Aurora Ste E, Seattle.
Which do you turn off? Which ones belong to WA State? If you can't tell easily, how can the carrier?
But is he so bad? Without him in the White House to declare a state religion, overturn half the important court decisions of the last century by executive fiat, the vast majority of the country will be condemned to eternal damnation for their sinful ways! With him there, only the Christians who sold their souls to Him will boil, everyone else legislatively goaded into Heaven!
Hey, I'd deal with eight years of radical Christian legislative climate if it meant a thousand years of debauchery after! Err.. So that means I get my debauchery in aught eight, right?
I didn't know there was an actual word for those people. The only people I have met with that particular dietary habit have been confused college students in bars. After they droned for five minutes on how meat is bad and then proceed to order the fish and a salad they were written off as twits.
In Mr. Jobs defense, or perhaps in my own,I thought he was plain old vegetarian.
If I invited those three to a party, and could theoretically get them all to show.
Steve Jobs would bring beer. He'd smoke a little, drink a little, and play pool with random folks while yammering away about random bull. . Definitly invited back.
Steve Ballmer would smoke everyone elses weed, drink whatever beer was first up in the fridge, and act nervous about it. Eventually he'd get knocked enough to loosen up, and after dancing wildly on tables, hitting on a long-haired dude he would swear later was "hot", puke in a potted plant and pass out somewhere. Mabye invited back once. Only if the theoretical potted plant lives, and only then to rib him about it.
Darl would bring his own weed, a bag of really badly faded skank. He'd leave it on the kitchen counter. After a joint or two, he'd get paranoid and accuse folks of ganking his stash. He'd get tossed for picking a fight with a random partygoer and proceed to call the cops from his Beemer, claiming he'd been robbed of his pot. Of course, when the police respond, there's the baggie of pot on his dashboard. Not invited back.
Should you not be able to get the ISP to shut them down and tell you who they are so you can sue?
No. You should have the ability to get a court order to shut them down based on facts.
No private citizen, company, or trade-association deserves police powers, or the power to subpoena at will, or the power of injunction. Ever.
But you're paying the radio company, who *is* paying the RIAA.. Whereas terrestrial broadcasters pay the RIAA nothing. They're already making more money than they would be allowed under the old system. This is just another power grab.
Not really..
What he's doing is redefining certain things as ratios, other things as the equivalent of atan(), etc. You'd still need the lookup tables, they'd just contain different numbers and be evaluated with a different expression.
It's probably easier to understand for someone that doesn't know trig to start, but it's not less computationally intensive to get the result in either system.