TiVo Gets Permission To Innovate

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Why Does TiVo Need Permission To
Innovate?

Why Does TiVo Need Permission To
Innovate? 08/02/2004 04:42 AM
A couple weeks ago, we had the story of the MPAA and the NFL trying to force TiVo to stop its plans to add new features to their devices that would let a user send a recorded program to another device. While we discussed why this was a ridiculous move by both the MPAA and the NFL, a reporter at the Washington Post is now going one step further and pointing out that the real travesty is the fact that TiVo suddenly needs to ask permission from the government to innovate. The ability of companies to continually innovate and reinvent markets based on free and open competition is what helps drive this economy. When companies need to ask permission to add innovative features, and that permission needs to go through other companies, we're destroying our ability to innovate competitively. Instead, companies outside of this country will build new systems with features that consumers actually want, while systems here are held back by regulations that serve no other purpose than to protect an adjacent industry that refuses to change with the times. It's the worst form of protectionism -- since no one will even admit that it's protectionism. And, like all attempts at protectionism, the end result will be much worse for those these rules supposedly protect.

CA—it can buy, but can it innovate?

CA—it can buy, but can it innovate? 04/08/2005 12:56 PM
Blog: On the conference call announcing Computer Associates' purchase of Concord Communications, the first question was about the...

Innovate!Europe

Innovate!Europe 06/17/2005 04:53 PM
The other conference in Europe I should have attended is Innovate!Europe. Chris Shipley has brought together a great group to talk about the challenges for innovation in Europe, and rightly framed the issue as a commercialization gap, not technology.  Europe...

Apple: Innovate Doesn't Mean Stealing

Apple: Innovate Doesn't Mean Stealing 06/29/2004 10:42 AM
Why try to isolate a developer who is clearly dedicated to the platform? By Hadley Stern, Apple Matters (via MyAppleMenu)

Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die

Nintendo's Iwata - Innovate or Die 05/20/2004 03:56 PM

IBM's Palmisano says U.S. must innovate
to keep jobs

IBM's Palmisano says U.S. must innovate
to keep jobs 10/30/2003 06:08 PM
Other countries are becoming more competitive not only in wages but also in education, job skills and network infrastructure, said IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.

XML for managers: When to innovate in
application design

XML for managers: When to innovate in
application design 03/21/2003 02:24 AM
CNET Mar 21 2003 1:24AM ET

Challenge to Open Source: Innovate,
Don't Copy

Challenge to Open Source: Innovate,
Don't Copy 01/05/2004 08:32 AM
Why would anyone with excellent computer skills want to work long hours (for free) to create code so that millionaire executives at IBM can use it to sell expensive mainframe computers and middleware with six-figure licenses? - Jim Fawcette

Well I have an oblique answer. Recently on a plane to Australia, I was asked by an Indian expat why I preferred to work in Malaysia, when I could easily migrate and work in more advanced countries such as Australia, USA or Europe.

Allow me to ask you the same question; why would anyone with excellent computer and social skills prefer to work in places that are poorer paying, more primitive, wasteful and corrupt than USA or Europe? I think the answer to that will illuminate Jim Fawcette's question.

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

Pronexus Continues to Innovate, Delivers
VBVoice 5.3 - Unparalleled Performance &
Scalability for IVR & Telephony
Development in High Density Environments

Pronexus Continues to Innovate, Delivers
VBVoice 5.3 - Unparalleled Performance &
Scalability for IVR & Telephony
Development in High Density Environments 01/06/2005 04:36 AM
Computer Telephony and Speech Developers Benefit From Advanced Resource Management, Broad Support for Dialogic Hardware and a Management Console with Optional Source Code [PRWEB Jan 6, 2005]

"used without permission. please don't
sue us."

"used without permission. please don't
sue us." 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
A Peanuts (re)Mix.

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=196
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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

SiniS 0.1a (Permission GUI)

SiniS 0.1a (Permission GUI) 08/29/2004 03:47 AM
A CVS user access and operations permission tool.

Permission Marketing

Permission Marketing 05/24/2002 11:27 AM

Windows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes

Windows XP SP1 Share Permission Changes 05/25/2004 10:18 PM

how to implement a permission system in
a CMS ?

how to implement a permission system in
a CMS ? 01/22/2003 06:39 PM
I'm currently coding (yet another) content management system with PHP/MySQL. As any modern CMS, mine got users. Now I need to implement the 'permissions' system. Basically it's a flag recorded in the database, allowing or not user 'x' to do action 'y' on the website. I can see every 'piece of information' in a CMS as an 'element'. That is, blogs of course, links, files, users, all is recorded in the same table with a 'type' attribute describing element type and allowing code to fetch and display correctly the element content.

Re: aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness

Re: aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness 07/15/2004 03:10 PM
Armin Wolfermann (Jul 14 2004)

aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness

aterm 0.4.2 tty permission weakness 07/13/2004 06:40 PM
Maarten Tielemans (Jul 13 2004)

Why new US passports can be read without
permission

Why new US passports can be read without
permission 04/14/2005 12:47 PM
Cory Doctorow: Yesterday at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle, Ed Felten cornered a State Department Fed who was there to advocate for passports enabled with RFID chips that will make it possible to track Americans as they wander the streets of foreign cities, and for terrorists and crooks to target American citizens by detecting the signature radio-pulses their passports give off. Ed asked the Fed why the US needed remotely readable passports, instead of passports with smart-cards or other "contact-read" technologies in them? The Fed's responses are hilariously lame:

In the Q&A session, I asked Mr. Moss directly why the decision was made to use a remotely readable chip rather than one that can only be read by physical contact. Technically, this decision is nearly indefensible, unless one wants to be able to read passports without notifying their owners -- which, officially at least, is not a goal of the U.S. government's program. Mr. Moss gave a pretty weak answer, which amounted to an assertion that it would have been too difficult to agree on a standard for contact-based reading of passports. This wasn't very convincing, since the smart-card standard could be applied to passports nearly as-is -- the only change necessary would be to specify exactly where on the passport the smart-card contacts would be. The standardization and security problems associated with contactless cards seem to be much more serious.

After the panel, I discussed this issue with Kenn Cukier of The Economist, who has followed the development of this technology for a while and has a good perspective on how we reached the current state. It seems that the decision to use contactless technology was made without fully understanding its consequences, relying on technical assurances from people who had products to sell. Now that the problems with that decision have become obvious, it's late in the process and would be expensive and embarrassing to back out. In short, this looks like another flawed technology procurement program.

Link

SiniS alpha (Permission GUI)

SiniS alpha (Permission GUI) 06/21/2004 07:36 AM
A CVS user access and operations permission tool.

Permission-Free Prison

Permission-Free Prison 05/16/2004 07:55 AM
Fascinating article by Seymour "Next Pulitzer a-Comin'" Hersh in this week's New Yorker. It alleges that the abuses at Abu Ghraib happened because a "special-access program" established by Rumsfeld to authorize quick-response kill/capture/interrogate operations took hold there. Hersh does not allege that Rumsfeld knew of or authorized the particular abuses, only that his program of secret, rough interrogation enabled them. But it's a far more nuanced article than I'm letting on. And, of course, it's well-told....

IBM DB2 Windows Permission Problems
(#NISR05012005F)

IBM DB2 Windows Permission Problems
(#NISR05012005F) 01/05/2005 06:39 PM
NGSSoftware Insight Security Research (Jan 05 2005)

Core Technology Exports Need Permission

Core Technology Exports Need Permission 09/19/2004 04:01 AM
Hankooki Sep 19 2004 8:37AM GMT

Re: [security] aterm 0.4.2 tty
permission weakness

Re: [security] aterm 0.4.2 tty
permission weakness 07/15/2004 05:20 PM
lorenzo (Jul 14 2004)

Giving and receiving authorization and
permission

Giving and receiving authorization and
permission 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
We've been exploring the key concepts of identity management as promulgated by the Open Group in a recent white paper (link below). Today our topic is authorization and permission management.

Re: Unsecure file permission of
ZoneAlarm pro.

Re: Unsecure file permission of
ZoneAlarm pro. 08/27/2004 01:32 PM
Bipin Gautam (Aug 22 2004)

Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam

Permission-only e-mail scheme says no to
spam 04/09/2005 07:58 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 9 2005 11:20AM GMT

Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm
pro.

Unsecure file permission of ZoneAlarm
pro. 08/20/2004 04:07 PM
Bipin Gautam (Aug 19 2004)

Permission-based Content Notifications
in Plone

Permission-based Content Notifications
in Plone 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Many sites need to be able to announce new content to their registered users. Wouldn't it be good if they did so only when the users have given them permission to do so and the content was genuinely of interest to each recipient? Here's a system for doing just that, using the Plone/Zope CMS.

Linux VServer procfs Permission Weakness

Linux VServer procfs Permission Weakness 07/07/2004 04:44 AM
“Veit Wahlich has reported a weakness in Linux VServer, which can be exploited by certain malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or gain knowledge of sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to weak permissions on procfs, which allows a privileged user on a virtual server to manipulate the permissions on “/proc” for all virtual servers or gain knowledge of information related to other virtual servers….Solution: Update to version 1.28.”

Notes and Tips: File Permission Problems

Notes and Tips: File Permission Problems 05/20/2004 10:03 AM
Apple updates its help file for dealing with all-too-common file-permission problems in Mac OS X.

the permission society: stay free!
stories

the permission society: stay free!
stories 06/24/2005 07:26 PM
Stay Free! has a fantastically interesting s tory about the struggles of a film maker with the permission society.

SCO using Samba source code: permission
granted or not?

SCO using Samba source code: permission
granted or not? 12/07/2003 10:29 AM
I've never told anyone about this before. In 1997, I collaborated for a few weeks with one of the developers of VisionFS on decoding the NT Domain protocols. Both VisionFS and Samba are windows-compatible file, print and login servers.

The issue is that whilst our cooperation accelerated the understanding of NT Domains, SCO's developer sent me some of his code, and the implicit understanding was that he would be able to copy mine.

However, no such agreements were actually in place...

House panel passes spyware permission
bill

House panel passes spyware permission
bill 06/17/2004 08:56 PM
No more sneaking monitoring software onto people's PCs if this becomes law.

Boeing asks government for permission to
harass seals

Boeing asks government for permission to
harass seals 04/08/2005 06:36 PM
Blog: Boeing has asked the U.S. government for permission to harass Pacific seals. It's no joke. The defense contractor...
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