RFIDs in the tires are a stretch but what about your RFID toll tag ID? At least here in north Texas, all tollways now use electronic billing systems, either by snapping a photo of your plates or via an RFID tag attached to the windshield. Drivers who opt for the tag are given a discounted toll rate. Coincidentally, the tag now uses a non-removable adhesive to attach to the windshield. (they used to use velcro strips so you could peel the tag off and put it in an EM-isolating bag in your glove compartment when you didn't need it)

And to many folks (myself for instance) those are two major differences that trickle out into other parts of the party platform and deserve mentioning.

The ironic part is that the human version (presumably) dies at the end of the episode after being hit by a car.

And you do realize that this show is made by Fox so several real babies were likely used as blood sacrifices in the making of it?

To borrow a quote from another geek favorite series: "I get it!"

For those of you who didn't immediately think "Futurama" I offer the following: "Ohhh....now I get it!"

Seriously though, clever reference, well done sir.

Agreed, and the real interesting stuff is still to come. With everyone moving to ARM powered mobile devices one of the largest strengths of the Windows OS family goes out the window, namely 30 years worth of legacy apps. There is no way that all those old business apps coded for x86 WinNT 4.0 and Win95 will be ported over to ARM. Microsoft would have to create an x86 emulator/VM that somehow manages to cover all the weird corner cases and still remain light and efficient enough to run on a tablet.

The Founding Fathers were also men of education and history. They saw what Europe's many religious wars accomplished: human charcoal, torture chambers, a devastated continent, and no real resolution. Catholics still hated protestants, protestants still hated Catholics and one another. The Founding Fathers knew that inviting religion into politics is a recipe for self-destruction.

Maybe I am missing something here but if you compile all that python script into native code (and yes, you can do that) then doesn't the whole "unacceptable runtime interpretor overhead" argument go out the window?

It's more likely to expect computing in general to move further towards ARM. x86 is on the way out, the only thing keeping x86 around was market inertia and perceived lack of processing power on ARM chips. That's all changing though, people love their smartphone apps and current ARM offerings are 64 bit capable, multicore, and running at ~1.5 GHz. My Galaxy Nexus phone has more processing power than my old desktop tower from 2002 but fits in my pocket. Almost every major Linux distro has some sort of plan or roadmap regarding ARM. For better or worse, ARM is likely going to be the wave of the future.

That tidbit is specific to ARM devices only and it is a load of bull. I've been waiting years to see what a Linux-powered (not Android) ARM laptop would look like

Ah but you forget, every time you make something more ingeniously idiot-proof, the universe comes up with ever more ingenious idiots.

You mean like the one about TCP/IP via avian carriers?