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 Category:Ottawa