Agenda
- Purchase a beer
- Introductions
Presentations
- Explanation of the Yashy Idea Society
- Beer - We will meet the brewmaster of the clocktower pub
Minutes
- backuppc was highly recommended
- should we record our talks/meetings on video to post online? This way it will last indefinitely, and won’t get lost of the direction changes
- the IDS of video (no false positives, for example)
- Are we interested in a high bandwidth video linkup between Victoria and Ottawa via the NRC for a meeting?
- Book: Machine Vision by Dmitry Gorodnichy
- What type of cost savings would there be if we legalized all drugs, and used that money for mental health research on drug usage
- Something being accepted by society makes it OK
- If legal elsewhere, people interested in that will go there. Marijuana in Amsterdam, gay marriage in Canada
- We can’t have mob rule
- Criminal = not accepted by society
- We had a large discussion on the fact that family values are gone
- sociopaths that are not killers, typically end up as bosses/management (willing to backstab, for example)
- Why can traditional families adopt, gays have a really hard time adopting and it’s near impossible for a single person to adopt?
- There are no more communities of families working together
- dogs and kids help make communities, we use than as a reason to communicate/socialize
- As we now have backyards instead of frontyards, this contributes to the removal of community
- Project: penetration testing is worth millions - we will start a project/business to offer this. pentest
- Project: PKI - We should setup a web site that offers all of the functionality of openssl, more so than cacert which was in browsers, but then removed.
- CAA now offers a prepaid credit card without the raised numbers. You can buy one for $250-$9999. They did not check for identification.
- RFID information, including readers and writers can be found at RFIDiot
- slim jims are legal in Ontario, if you’re not using it to steal a car
- Book: Them by Jon Ronson
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