Justin and Jason discuss how 0.01 Bitcoin was donated to the show, why Justin has been blogging so much lately, their respective Christmas plans and family traditions, an intriguing a nti-ageing compound that’s set for human trials, an Oxford debate on ageing, why science fiction tends to restrict itself to exploring such a limited set of advances and how difficult it is to predict the future, the possibility of <wbr />mind-reading technologies, how the French recently implanted the first artificial human heart, how difficult it would be to adapt to the far future, what's different about kids today, how task laziness is all relative, Justin's post refuting Bitcoin FUD and a short discussion about inflation and deflation, Jason's mad scientist idea about how to accelerate the 4th grade math team he's coaching, the latest on Catalyst, how James Jensen's kids are following along with the Catalyst concept of using real tools, Jason's monster MySQL stored procedure, why Justin rewrote a CloudDB solution in MySQL and why he doesn't use a debugger, Glenn Bennett's humo<wbr />rous image validator, more on Jason's friend who's teaching himself how to code and Jason's idea for a reality TV show called Geek Up, the ‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants, CryptoLocker’s crimewave, the revelation that the NSA program has stopped zero terror attacks, how its phone surveillance program has been ruled unconstitutional, how the White House is attempting to prevent federal judges from ruling on surveillance efforts, scary acoustic cryptanalysis, how a n NSA coworker remembers Edward Snowden as a genius among geniuses, how the NSA likely bribed RSA into weakening its BSAFE library, RSA’s unimpressive rebuttal and an insightful counter rebuttal, the ridiculous, whitewash 60-minutes report on the NSA and how the pandering reporter is expected to land a top intelligence role at the NYPD, how no one is watching mainstream news anymore, especially in comparison to The Walking Dead, Amazon's new show Alpha House, how Treehouse manages to get anything accomplished without managers, and their respective views on wishing people a Merry / Happy Christmas.

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