With this form of wireless power, you don't have to remember to replace the batteries, and you don't have to interrupt the device from working while the batteries are being replaced.

Yes, just like wireless phones, which each need a special wireless receiver/transformer.

because goodness knows in these troubling times, our society needs to concentrate our technological progress into the betterment of movie special effects, and a better cost structure for producers of action blockbusters.

Players who get miffed when others don't follow Basic Strategy are just trying to feel superior. (Hmm, just like people who post on Slashdot, including you and me?)

It really is all a wash. If you're on first base (first player to be dealt to) and the count is negative (the composition of the remaining cards is unfavorable to all the players) then if everybody after you hits a 20, you should be happy because by taking cards they are bringing the deck back towards neutral or favorable after you've played but before your next bet, which is precisely what you want. In that situation their (provably) incorrect play is improving the odds for you. But of course over time their incorrect play is just as likely to hurt your odds, so you might as well give your blood pressure a break, because it will probably improve your counting.
All of this is true even if you play perfect Basic Strategy but you don't bother to count.

The iPhone is not at the top of the Windows share, it is a non-Windows mobile phone that exceeds the Windows share.

Yeah, it's a misplaced modifier. Perhaps more clear would be:

Apple surpasses Microsoft in race for share of smartphones.
or
iPhone surpasses Windows Mobile in race for share of smartphones.

I presume all of the flavors of smartphone OSes from Redmond (Windows CE, etc.?) are all lumped together, and iPhone still has the lead?

Personally, I'd be far more concerned with ID fraud than attacks on the encryption scheme. How do they determine who's using the 'hardened laptop'?

Maybe they do the same simple thing that we do at the good old fashioned polling place where I work each election in King County, Washington. Before we allow them to mark a paper ballot with a pen (or step up to the electronic machine, if that's their preference) we ask to see their government-issued ID. Your state election laws may vary.