Facebook, meanwhile, has been playing an endless game of cat and mouse with members over its public use of their data.

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My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.

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That would leave them with a good chance of playing kingmaker in an endless series of left-leaning or right-leaning coalition governments.

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