The newer CurrentCost meters are not only inexpensive, but also provide a serial interface (over USB).

A friend of mine has created py-power-cost to extract this data into a DB and generate reports/graphs viewable via a web app.

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Really? Seriously?
It's not so much a joke as a snarky comment about the lack of editing (as usual) in the summary, which neither informs you about what the hell it's actually going on about, nor does it even manage to spell it's own subject matter correctly, for example as pointed out "Communincator".

You sir, completely missed the point. See, there, right there it goes *woooooosh*

I believe this is actually EU law, however -> [citation needed].

By the looks of it most of the "hate" is coming from Bootcamp users, who aren't running Win7 in a VM at all, but are dualbooting, and so they might (rightly so) expect more battery life from the primary OS (not a guest).

FYI it was a comic book series before they made the animated adaptation.

Frankly I'm awaiting the Lizard revision..

Fundamentalist poisonous food additives?
Ohnoes!!

Germany, UK and US are where they have their licensing deals, so they make advertising and referral money off streams within those countries.

No, they just have a policy of not selling on their DB to third parties, that huge DB of listening habits is used for the service alone.

Ooooooooooooor you could just go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0.

But you know, if aimlessly bitching is your thing, please continue.