On my Mazda (which I think is now standard across the whole line; the infotainment systems all look identical), the GPS navigation is built into the infotainment which all the cars have, but you have to pay $250 for the SD card with the nav data on it if you didn't buy a model where it's thrown in as part of the trim package. There's no cellular modem, though, and no traffic updates (in the US), so it's not the greatest. It uses HERE navigation, so that part actually works pretty well, the lack of traffic updates and re-routing for traffic is lame though. Anyway, there's no cell modem and thus no telemetry AFAIK unless they send something back through your BT cellphone.
(Also, in case any Mazda owners are reading and don't want to pay $250 for the nav card, you can download an ISO of the SD card image that someone made available.)
Or you could just use Ting, a T-Mobile reseller, and pay them $6/month (and your actual usage just adds to the rest of your Ting account, which works with both T-Mobile and Sprint devices).
Of course, if the $10/month T-mo card doesn't work with it, Ting probably won't either. Just pointing out that there's a cheaper option available for T-mo devices.
So far, I'm really liking my 2015 Mazda3. The "infotainment" computer runs Linux (though the application software on top of it is rather slow as it's all in JavaScript), and mostly works pretty decently and with the "commander knob" on the center console is easy to use and safe while driving (don't have to use the touchscreen). And so far, I haven't seen any kind of problems with the firmware in other parts of the car, nor have I even read about any such problems on the very active mazda3revolution.com forums. Mazdas are generally known to be very reliable.
Better yet, since the infotainment is Linux-based and easy to hack into (the root password is "jci", stands for Johnson Controls Inc, the supplier), a bunch of people are busy making all kinds of mods and improvements to the system.
This doesn't mean there aren't some hidden problems there somewhere, but these cars have been around since model year 2014 and I haven't read of any serious problems yet.
That still doesn't make that much sense. They can send telemetry back through your Bluetooth-connected phone. Of course, if you never bother to connect a phone by Bluetooth, that would stymie their spying, so I guess building the cellular modem into the car helps prevent that, but then how do they keep people from refusing to pay the monthly cellular bill for it and just getting it disconnected by the carrier?
This means all other scapegoats; homosexuals, abortion, birth control, religious freedom, are being ignored by him. It's fascinating that he's running on a Republican platform yet no-one is asking his position on these vote-buying issues.
They did ask him about the whole transgender bathroom thing, and he said he thought it was dumb and that it wasn't a problem, and that TG people were welcome to use whichever bathroom in Trump Tower they were comfortable with. Caitlyn Jenner even tested this successfully.
Remember now, Hillary was all in favor of DOMA and against gay marriage, until it became politically expedient for her to switch sides and be in favor of gay marriage. Trump however has gone directly against current conservative ideology with his "I don't really care which bathroom TGs use" position, and he doesn't seem to be suffering for it.
He has made a few lame noises towards supporting more conservative positions on abortion and religious freedom, but they seem pretty obvious attempts to placate conservative voters because he's said contradictory things before. So he's not really much better than Hillary in this regard, but he's definitely not a big social conservative, nor is he pushing an extremely socially conservative platform. What he's shown, really, is that mainstream Republican voters aren't that conservative, or at least don't care that much about their President being so conservative. They're largely disaffected working-class white people worried about economic problems, and think that he's their best bet with his more isolationist policy proposals.
What the left really needs to re-think is the whole voting system, and pushing for eliminating the Electoral College and our current first-past-the-post voting system used in the national elections. The left is supposed to be the side that's all for making changes, so this is really their domain, but they've never pushed for this.
Heck, even the Republicans might be interested in fixing this problem now, since Trump has ruined their plans and split their party.
The Irony here is that there are legions of Obama supporters who think that this is 1. True 2. Advisable.
While it's obviously satire, it actually *is* advisable, considering the two likely successors to Obama. I'd much sooner trust the launch codes to a retired Obama than to either Hillary or Trump. I'm no Obama fan, but he's not nearly as bad as either of those two. I'd rather have a 3rd Obama term than either of those two.
Heck, even GWB would be more trustworthy with the launch codes.
Won't work. He'll propose stuff in the interview that's totally antithetical to their crappy new UX philosophy and won't get hired. They're only going to hire people who've drunk the same Kool-Aid as themselves.
How is it that one of the most popular products of one of the world's largest corporations has such a mishmash / poorly thought-out interface, a low detail-level which can't be altered by the user, and terribly drawn graphics (their terrain in particular is an embarrassment)? If they'll fix the interface and our penalty as users is to suffer through ads... then bring on the ads.
You're totally forgetting about the speed.
On my Galaxy S4, Google Maps still seems to be OK, but for the web version, it's ridiculously slow these days. I don't know WTF happened, but Google Maps used to be snappy on a decent computer, but now it's the slowest web page I use. Panning around, zooming, everything is horribly, horribly slow. It's almost unusable. I'm probably have to start looking more seriously at Bing Maps when I'm on a PC (and I'm a huge MS hater).
As for this "promoted pins" crap, it's all a bad idea. donowant. I don't care if I'm looking at restaurants; I don't want to see whatever shitty greasy spoons have paid to have themselves promoted. And I really don't want my screen filled with a bunch of stupid icons for shitty businesses I'm not interested in. If Google resorts to this crap, it's going to be time to look at competing mapping apps such as Bing.
It's pretty sad that I'm having to serious consider Microsoft products because Google is going down the drain so fast. There's a few other navigation apps out there too; I'll have to look at those.
Oh please, yourself. Our invasions were not "purely colonial", that's complete BS. A true colonial regime does not try to set up friendly governments composed of the natives, and then give those governments real power. We left Iraq, remember, because the government asked us to (and refused to provide legal immunity to our soldiers). A true colonial government doesn't do stuff like that: they administer the colony with their own people (from the colonizing country), who answer directly to the mother country, not to the colony or its people. There might be some locals involved, but they are subservient to the mother country and its installed administrators. You're probably confused because you're thinking of the American colonies, but those weren't like this; those were British people establishing new territories in the New World (after simply pushing the sparsely-populated Natives out of the way entirely) with governments that answered directly to the Crown. Real colonies are one where the colonizer invades places with existing, significant populations, then uses those people in the new colony's economy for the benefit of the mother country's economy. Africa, and its colonization by European powers around ~1900, is the poster child of this, as is India under British rule.
What we did in Iraq was not really a puppet regime, it was just a different, and rather neutered regime of the locals. We naively thought we could do "nation building" the way we did in both Japan and Germany in the wake of WWII. We were wrong, because Iraq did not resemble those modern industrial powers in any way.
And GGP's analogy is more akin to how we won World War 2. Winning takes real brutality that most people can't stomach.
BS again. We easily won the Iraq war of 2003. It was over in weeks. We completely crushed the Iraqi Army, even though it was one of the largest land armies in the world at the time. It wasn't even close. And we did it without having to be very brutal, thanks to modern weaponry. Where we failed was dealing with the aftermath, and the power vacuum we created there. We tried setting up a fair government that gave the different ethnic groups a part in the government, and it was a failure for many reasons. We overestimated their ability to come together and work together in a single government, and we also wiped out the country's existing power structures in our "de-Ba'athification", and in disbanding the Army which was a complete disaster.
The whole thing was an exercise in incompetence, thanks to W and his buddy Cheney.
And remember, we still occupy both Europe and Japan.
This is just plain ignorant. Having a few military bases does not equal "occupation". Occupation is when you run the government of a foreign country that you've invaded (which is what we're discussing above). We do not run the governments of Japan or Germany in any way, though we do provide some defense services for them.
Yeah, you do have a point there with the Unity and Gnome3 turds. The distros should have standardized on KDE (since it's easily customizable and themable anyway, so they could have made their own custom themes to differentiate themselves, while users would still be able to easily modify it from there if they wanted), but instead the two major companies came up with their own crappy UIs.
Still, it seems there really should be more standardization for less-visible stuff, such as package managers. Seriously, what is so different about rpm and dpkg, or apt and yum? It all appears to come down to NIH.
The weather alone makes me not want to live in Austin. I lived over a decade in Phoenix, and now I dream about living in the Pacific NW. Constantly cool, rainy weather sounds very appealing to me.
That's not what we did in Iraq. We tried to form a government from the people there and give power to different groups (namely the Kurds and Shias, who didn't have power before). We tried to make that country self-governing and self-supporting with a democratic government.
What he's proposing is entirely different: he's proposing colonialism basically: a situation where the country would be invaded, and be given a *military* government run by us, not by any of their own people. It's the complete opposite of democracy, it's a government imposed by outsiders using force. Further, he advocates brutally suppressing the country's own culture and imposing ours (or an odd version of ours; we don't hand out free guns to women here).
It might work, I don't know. But to equate it to the "nation building" they attempted in Iraq is completely false.
my experience is the pulse readings during exercise is highly suspect. When I'm on the treadmill the ChargeHR frequently reads 10-30 bpm higher than the treadmill sensors. Fitbit is not a medical-grade device, if you need that level of accuracy for health reasons, don't get a fitbit.
I call foul on this. Is your treadmill a "medical-grade device"? No, of course it isn't. So why are you willing to accept such erroneous readings from the Fitbit when the consumer-grade treadmill apparently is able to get reasonably-accurate readings?
My suspicion is fitbit isn't really much better or worse than it's competitors.
Well obviously it's much worse than the cheap pulse meter they threw into your treadmill.
However they already have customers leaving Microsoft in droves. They don't need Windows to read email or check twitter, the phones do that now.
These people are individual, casual users who never did much with their PCs anyway, and were going to leave Windows anyway. So it makes perfect sense for MS to extract more revenue from the existing home users with their spyware. The people who haven't left yet aren't going to.
And the corporate people are now starting to move a bit more to Linux, OSX, web-applications, etc..
Sorry, I haven't seen this at all. Every corporation of any size is still using Outlook + Exchange for email.
This is insane. I am totally p*ssed at M$ right now.
Yeah, and what are you going to do about it? Take your business elsewhere? Apparently not, so why should MS care about you being pissed?
Since people like you are unwilling to leave the Windows platform, it's better for MS to force you all onto Windows 10 and its spyware so they can make more money by spying on you and selling that information.
No, Microsoft shouldn't do any of the things you suggest. Instead, Microsoft should look for any way it can to make more profit by screwing over their customers. This is the correct thing for them to do, because profit is their reason for existence. If customers don't like it, they can find another vendor, but they won't, as we've seen, so unlike other companies where they need to worry about customer perception and reputation, MS doesn't, so they might as well maximize profit any way they can, no matter what the customers think about it.
Wrong. Where are existing customers (particularly corporate ones) going to go? What are new customers going to use instead? All the business software runs on Windows, so customers have no choice. MS is doing the right thing: they're not going to lose any customers no matter how much the annoy them, so anything they can do to screw them over for more profit is the correct move for them.
It's a never ending learning curve, great for techies who use it everyday and who's focus is on Linux itself, but annoying as hell if you just wanted to get some work done.
Nope, I'm a techie who uses Linux professionally and I don't like it either. You're absolutely right about them needing to start standardizing; it's way way overdue. The Gnome3 debacle, Unity, and consequential explosion of desktops made it much worse.
The thing you're missing is that licenses don't work without copyrights. If your software is distributed under an open-source/Free license like GPL, and suddenly copyright law vanishes, there's nothing stopping anyone from ignoring the license and distributing it however they want, not making changes available, etc.
Copyrights do seem antithetical to scientific work, but for non-scientific work they're rather necessary to fuel many industries. An author is not going to be able to make a living selling novels without copyright law, for instance.
The problem with copyrights is the duration: they're way too long, and nothing is passing into the public domain any more. They should shorten it to 5 years, with extensions granted by paying progressively-higher fees (every 5-year extension costs more exponentially money than the last, eventually causing copyright holders to abandon the work to the public domain). For instance: 5 years protection: free. 10 years: $10k. 15 years: $100k. 20 years: $1M. 25 years: $10M. Not many copyright holders are going to bother paying for more than 30 years protection under my scheme, so works would pass into the public domain fairly quickly, after only 5 years for stuff that's so worthless they won't pay $10k for the privilege, and after 20-30 years for everything else.
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There's carmakers still doing that crap?
On my Mazda (which I think is now standard across the whole line; the infotainment systems all look identical), the GPS navigation is built into the infotainment which all the cars have, but you have to pay $250 for the SD card with the nav data on it if you didn't buy a model where it's thrown in as part of the trim package. There's no cellular modem, though, and no traffic updates (in the US), so it's not the greatest. It uses HERE navigation, so that part actually works pretty well, the lack of traffic updates and re-routing for traffic is lame though. Anyway, there's no cell modem and thus no telemetry AFAIK unless they send something back through your BT cellphone.
(Also, in case any Mazda owners are reading and don't want to pay $250 for the nav card, you can download an ISO of the SD card image that someone made available.)
Or you could just use Ting, a T-Mobile reseller, and pay them $6/month (and your actual usage just adds to the rest of your Ting account, which works with both T-Mobile and Sprint devices).
Of course, if the $10/month T-mo card doesn't work with it, Ting probably won't either. Just pointing out that there's a cheaper option available for T-mo devices.
So far, I'm really liking my 2015 Mazda3. The "infotainment" computer runs Linux (though the application software on top of it is rather slow as it's all in JavaScript), and mostly works pretty decently and with the "commander knob" on the center console is easy to use and safe while driving (don't have to use the touchscreen). And so far, I haven't seen any kind of problems with the firmware in other parts of the car, nor have I even read about any such problems on the very active mazda3revolution.com forums. Mazdas are generally known to be very reliable.
Better yet, since the infotainment is Linux-based and easy to hack into (the root password is "jci", stands for Johnson Controls Inc, the supplier), a bunch of people are busy
making all kinds of mods and improvements to the system.
This doesn't mean there aren't some hidden problems there somewhere, but these cars have been around since model year 2014 and I haven't read of any serious problems yet.
That still doesn't make that much sense. They can send telemetry back through your Bluetooth-connected phone. Of course, if you never bother to connect a phone by Bluetooth, that would stymie their spying, so I guess building the cellular modem into the car helps prevent that, but then how do they keep people from refusing to pay the monthly cellular bill for it and just getting it disconnected by the carrier?
The fact that you pretend that hasn't happened is just one more example of a Hillary supporter having to outright knowingly lie to make their point.
FTFY. Don't lump all the lefties in together. Roughly half of them despise Hillary.
This means all other scapegoats; homosexuals, abortion, birth control, religious freedom, are being ignored by him. It's fascinating that he's running on a Republican platform yet no-one is asking his position on these vote-buying issues.
They did ask him about the whole transgender bathroom thing, and he said he thought it was dumb and that it wasn't a problem, and that TG people were welcome to use whichever bathroom in Trump Tower they were comfortable with. Caitlyn Jenner even tested this successfully.
Remember now, Hillary was all in favor of DOMA and against gay marriage, until it became politically expedient for her to switch sides and be in favor of gay marriage. Trump however has gone directly against current conservative ideology with his "I don't really care which bathroom TGs use" position, and he doesn't seem to be suffering for it.
He has made a few lame noises towards supporting more conservative positions on abortion and religious freedom, but they seem pretty obvious attempts to placate conservative voters because he's said contradictory things before. So he's not really much better than Hillary in this regard, but he's definitely not a big social conservative, nor is he pushing an extremely socially conservative platform. What he's shown, really, is that mainstream Republican voters aren't that conservative, or at least don't care that much about their President being so conservative. They're largely disaffected working-class white people worried about economic problems, and think that he's their best bet with his more isolationist policy proposals.
What the left really needs to re-think is the whole voting system, and pushing for eliminating the Electoral College and our current first-past-the-post voting system used in the national elections. The left is supposed to be the side that's all for making changes, so this is really their domain, but they've never pushed for this.
Heck, even the Republicans might be interested in fixing this problem now, since Trump has ruined their plans and split their party.
The Irony here is that there are legions of Obama supporters who think that this is
1. True
2. Advisable.
While it's obviously satire, it actually *is* advisable, considering the two likely successors to Obama. I'd much sooner trust the launch codes to a retired Obama than to either Hillary or Trump. I'm no Obama fan, but he's not nearly as bad as either of those two. I'd rather have a 3rd Obama term than either of those two.
Heck, even GWB would be more trustworthy with the launch codes.
Won't work. He'll propose stuff in the interview that's totally antithetical to their crappy new UX philosophy and won't get hired. They're only going to hire people who've drunk the same Kool-Aid as themselves.
How is it that one of the most popular products of one of the world's largest corporations has such a mishmash / poorly thought-out interface, a low detail-level which can't be altered by the user, and terribly drawn graphics (their terrain in particular is an embarrassment)? If they'll fix the interface and our penalty as users is to suffer through ads... then bring on the ads.
You're totally forgetting about the speed.
On my Galaxy S4, Google Maps still seems to be OK, but for the web version, it's ridiculously slow these days. I don't know WTF happened, but Google Maps used to be snappy on a decent computer, but now it's the slowest web page I use. Panning around, zooming, everything is horribly, horribly slow. It's almost unusable. I'm probably have to start looking more seriously at Bing Maps when I'm on a PC (and I'm a huge MS hater).
As for this "promoted pins" crap, it's all a bad idea. donowant. I don't care if I'm looking at restaurants; I don't want to see whatever shitty greasy spoons have paid to have themselves promoted. And I really don't want my screen filled with a bunch of stupid icons for shitty businesses I'm not interested in. If Google resorts to this crap, it's going to be time to look at competing mapping apps such as Bing.
It's pretty sad that I'm having to serious consider Microsoft products because Google is going down the drain so fast. There's a few other navigation apps out there too; I'll have to look at those.
Oh please, yourself. Our invasions were not "purely colonial", that's complete BS. A true colonial regime does not try to set up friendly governments composed of the natives, and then give those governments real power. We left Iraq, remember, because the government asked us to (and refused to provide legal immunity to our soldiers). A true colonial government doesn't do stuff like that: they administer the colony with their own people (from the colonizing country), who answer directly to the mother country, not to the colony or its people. There might be some locals involved, but they are subservient to the mother country and its installed administrators. You're probably confused because you're thinking of the American colonies, but those weren't like this; those were British people establishing new territories in the New World (after simply pushing the sparsely-populated Natives out of the way entirely) with governments that answered directly to the Crown. Real colonies are one where the colonizer invades places with existing, significant populations, then uses those people in the new colony's economy for the benefit of the mother country's economy. Africa, and its colonization by European powers around ~1900, is the poster child of this, as is India under British rule.
What we did in Iraq was not really a puppet regime, it was just a different, and rather neutered regime of the locals. We naively thought we could do "nation building" the way we did in both Japan and Germany in the wake of WWII. We were wrong, because Iraq did not resemble those modern industrial powers in any way.
And GGP's analogy is more akin to how we won World War 2. Winning takes real brutality that most people can't stomach.
BS again. We easily won the Iraq war of 2003. It was over in weeks. We completely crushed the Iraqi Army, even though it was one of the largest land armies in the world at the time. It wasn't even close. And we did it without having to be very brutal, thanks to modern weaponry. Where we failed was dealing with the aftermath, and the power vacuum we created there. We tried setting up a fair government that gave the different ethnic groups a part in the government, and it was a failure for many reasons. We overestimated their ability to come together and work together in a single government, and we also wiped out the country's existing power structures in our "de-Ba'athification", and in disbanding the Army which was a complete disaster.
The whole thing was an exercise in incompetence, thanks to W and his buddy Cheney.
And remember, we still occupy both Europe and Japan.
This is just plain ignorant. Having a few military bases does not equal "occupation". Occupation is when you run the government of a foreign country that you've invaded (which is what we're discussing above). We do not run the governments of Japan or Germany in any way, though we do provide some defense services for them.
Yeah, you do have a point there with the Unity and Gnome3 turds. The distros should have standardized on KDE (since it's easily customizable and themable anyway, so they could have made their own custom themes to differentiate themselves, while users would still be able to easily modify it from there if they wanted), but instead the two major companies came up with their own crappy UIs.
Still, it seems there really should be more standardization for less-visible stuff, such as package managers. Seriously, what is so different about rpm and dpkg, or apt and yum? It all appears to come down to NIH.
The weather alone makes me not want to live in Austin. I lived over a decade in Phoenix, and now I dream about living in the Pacific NW. Constantly cool, rainy weather sounds very appealing to me.
The small companies that own and rent private jets probably refuse to rent to Arab men from the middle east.
That's not what we did in Iraq. We tried to form a government from the people there and give power to different groups (namely the Kurds and Shias, who didn't have power before). We tried to make that country self-governing and self-supporting with a democratic government.
What he's proposing is entirely different: he's proposing colonialism basically: a situation where the country would be invaded, and be given a *military* government run by us, not by any of their own people. It's the complete opposite of democracy, it's a government imposed by outsiders using force. Further, he advocates brutally suppressing the country's own culture and imposing ours (or an odd version of ours; we don't hand out free guns to women here).
It might work, I don't know. But to equate it to the "nation building" they attempted in Iraq is completely false.
my experience is the pulse readings during exercise is highly suspect. When I'm on the treadmill the ChargeHR frequently reads 10-30 bpm higher than the treadmill sensors. Fitbit is not a medical-grade device, if you need that level of accuracy for health reasons, don't get a fitbit.
I call foul on this. Is your treadmill a "medical-grade device"? No, of course it isn't. So why are you willing to accept such erroneous readings from the Fitbit when the consumer-grade treadmill apparently is able to get reasonably-accurate readings?
My suspicion is fitbit isn't really much better or worse than it's competitors.
Well obviously it's much worse than the cheap pulse meter they threw into your treadmill.
Great! Have fun with the spyware and the Metro UI! I certainly won't miss you.
However they already have customers leaving Microsoft in droves. They don't need Windows to read email or check twitter, the phones do that now.
These people are individual, casual users who never did much with their PCs anyway, and were going to leave Windows anyway. So it makes perfect sense for MS to extract more revenue from the existing home users with their spyware. The people who haven't left yet aren't going to.
And the corporate people are now starting to move a bit more to Linux, OSX, web-applications, etc..
Sorry, I haven't seen this at all. Every corporation of any size is still using Outlook + Exchange for email.
Maybe next time he'll think twice about trusting this company to be their vendor.
I doubt it though. Like everyone else, he'll continue using their software and bitching about it.
This is insane. I am totally p*ssed at M$ right now.
Yeah, and what are you going to do about it? Take your business elsewhere? Apparently not, so why should MS care about you being pissed?
Since people like you are unwilling to leave the Windows platform, it's better for MS to force you all onto Windows 10 and its spyware so they can make more money by spying on you and selling that information.
No, Microsoft shouldn't do any of the things you suggest. Instead, Microsoft should look for any way it can to make more profit by screwing over their customers. This is the correct thing for them to do, because profit is their reason for existence. If customers don't like it, they can find another vendor, but they won't, as we've seen, so unlike other companies where they need to worry about customer perception and reputation, MS doesn't, so they might as well maximize profit any way they can, no matter what the customers think about it.
Wrong. Where are existing customers (particularly corporate ones) going to go? What are new customers going to use instead? All the business software runs on Windows, so customers have no choice. MS is doing the right thing: they're not going to lose any customers no matter how much the annoy them, so anything they can do to screw them over for more profit is the correct move for them.
It's a never ending learning curve, great for techies who use it everyday and who's focus is on Linux itself, but annoying as hell if you just wanted to get some work done.
Nope, I'm a techie who uses Linux professionally and I don't like it either. You're absolutely right about them needing to start standardizing; it's way way overdue. The Gnome3 debacle, Unity, and consequential explosion of desktops made it much worse.
What amazes me is, on Tinder, how many women have photos of themselves holding an alcoholic drink. They're not passed out naked (yet), but there's definitely a huge culture of alcohol consumption here. I'm not a teetotaler either, but when you post photos of yourself on a dating site, the idea is to 1) show what you look like, and 2) show yourself doing something that other people would like to do with you. So of course you see people posting photos of themselves at exotic locations, because even though Macchu Picchu is cliché now, who doesn't want to travel the world if they can afford it? But when you post a bunch of photos of yourself at the bar, that makes it look like you're an alcoholic who just spends all their time at the bar instead of doing something more interesting.
The thing you're missing is that licenses don't work without copyrights. If your software is distributed under an open-source/Free license like GPL, and suddenly copyright law vanishes, there's nothing stopping anyone from ignoring the license and distributing it however they want, not making changes available, etc.
Copyrights do seem antithetical to scientific work, but for non-scientific work they're rather necessary to fuel many industries. An author is not going to be able to make a living selling novels without copyright law, for instance.
The problem with copyrights is the duration: they're way too long, and nothing is passing into the public domain any more. They should shorten it to 5 years, with extensions granted by paying progressively-higher fees (every 5-year extension costs more exponentially money than the last, eventually causing copyright holders to abandon the work to the public domain). For instance: 5 years protection: free. 10 years: $10k. 15 years: $100k. 20 years: $1M. 25 years: $10M. Not many copyright holders are going to bother paying for more than 30 years protection under my scheme, so works would pass into the public domain fairly quickly, after only 5 years for stuff that's so worthless they won't pay $10k for the privilege, and after 20-30 years for everything else.