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Comment Watts (Power) is USELESS fort CAPACITY (Score 2) 193

Watts (volts x amps) is great for knowing how much POWER the battery can output (peak watts, constant watts - the size of the gasoline pipeline), but USELESS to know how big of a battery (how much gasoline/fule the tank holds) it is. mAh at the very least lets us calculate the battery capacity by multiplying the battery's voltage spec to get ENERGY (how much gasoline it holds). Ideally we'd know all of the above--ENERGY (in watt-hours, kilowatt-hous), CURRENT capacity (peak and safe max average amperage can be drawn) and POWER capacity (peak wattage, and average constant use wattage). Knowing some of these we can calcuate the others. But if we are ONLY given WATTS, there is ZERO WAY TO CALCULATE the battery CAPACITY. So I shall repeat:

WATTS IS USELESS FOR CAPACITY!

Comment Fingerprinting Scripts Blocked Fail (Score 1) 49

Oooh, sweet, fingerprinting scripts are blocked. Let's try this out. Update Firefox, double-check settings that fingerprinting protection is enabled. Hop on over to EFF's Panopticlick web page. Start test.

Um, nope. Fingerprint is unique: "...our browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 197,585 tested in the past 45 days. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.59 bits of identifying information."

That doesn't look like any fingerprinting was blocked. *sigh* At least not enough to prevent my browser being uniquely fingerprinted.

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