# Key Points from IRC Log

• A discussion about Emotiv's response to open-source developers, with users suggesting the company is undermining open-source development of their EEG headset platform, possibly because they're preparing for a buyout and see open-source efforts as undermining their saleable assets.

• A biohacking supply company was being developed, with reference to a crowdsourcing project for naming it at crowdspring.com, with discussion about using the domain diysci.com.

• Users shared concerns about an article titled "Day of synthetic pathogens-based bioterrorism nears" from Homeland Security News Wire, highlighting growing concerns about synthetic biology security.

• DARPA responded to a query about whether their repository requirements were SysML/AADL-only or if they were interested in CAD files as well, but provided no clear answer.

• Yale University research on machine vision for posture recognition was shared (http://www.eng.yale.edu/elab/research/postures/postures.html).

• A European Commission survey on "emerging transhumanism issues" was circulated (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PW7Q3V2).

• A new release of NaroCAD, an open-source CAD program based on OpenCascade, was announced (http://narocad.blogspot.com/2010/09/narocad-151-released.html).