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Hosts protect when plugins can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

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Hosts protect when plugins can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect when plugins can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Ads/script/malware rob speed/security/privacy/bandwidth.

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster from local RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in a FASTER kernelmode IP stack (does more w/ less).

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/ (self checking vs. infection of it built-in)

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Ads/script/malware rob speed/security/privacy/bandwidth.

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster from local RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in a FASTER kernelmode IP stack (doing more w/ less).

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/ (self checking code vs. infection of it built-in)

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

See subject + TONS of proofs galore enumerated (not even fully complete mind you) https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9007355&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=51969075/

Addtionally - DNS many "moving parts" & excessive complexity OPEN IT TO EXPLOIT & excess power, cpu, ram & other I/O use = inefficient vs. hosts (a SINGLE part of the TCP/IP stack itself makes DNS locally even inferior (calling out to remote DNS, 99++% of which are unpatched vs. the kaminsky redirect security bug = bad news/risky)) - FACT: Hosts are NOT "illogic-logic" of "Bolting on 'MoAr'", local DNS is!

APK

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Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

ADDONS = EXPLOITABLE https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11166303&cid=55266729/

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

Ads/script/malware rob speed/security/privacy/bandwidth.

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster from local RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in a FASTER kernelmode IP stack (doing more w/ less).

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/ (self checking code vs. infection of it built-in)

Without script, ... every action ... a full page reload.

And thats a show-stoper ... how exactly ?

I can think of three reasons:

If the webpage designer is even just halfway* competent only the HTML text will be downloaded

Even if doesn't have to redownload images or stylesheets, a web application free of client-side script has to redownload the entire HTML, not only the HTML for the parts that the user's interaction has changed. In addition, the new document would load scrolled either to the top of the document or to the top of the section identified by a fragment identifier, not to the exact point to which the user had already scrolled.

You don't want to know how many websites place their style-sheets in-line

They do this to reduce perceived latency. On a satellite or cellular network, each HTTP request may add a second to round-trip time. Thus placing style declarations required for the first screen inline can be a good thing because it reduces the number of round-trips needed to display the beginning of the document. I believe the pattern nowadays is called inline style above the fold.

The purpose of third party cookies is to store user preferences for scripts and other resources that may be included on many different sites. Tracking is an abuse of the feature, albeit an obvious one.

The "do not track" option makes the browser send an additional header with every request that tells the server you don't want to be tracked. What the server does with that information is entirely up to its operators.

For blocking third party cookies, see "Block cookies from other sites" on this page: Clear, enable and manage cookies in Chrome, or don't use a browser made by an advertising company.

Groundwater Sustainability Agencies ?

That's the first result for

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://archive.is/eU90k

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://archive.is/TstDK

I don't see anything about useless people being sent there though.

Got a link?

Groundwater Sustainability Agencies ?

That's the first result for

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://archive.is/eU90k

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://archive.is/TstDK

I don't see anything about useless people being sent there though.

Got a link?

According to this link and taking some round numbers, an Albizzia lebbek can sequester 70 lbs of CO2 per year.

Assuming a 40-year project lifetime, we would then need 637,765,000,000 trees to pull the mentioned amount out of the atmosphere.

For comparison, the Amazon rainforest has an estimated 390 billion trees.

Dividing these two numbers indicates that the world would have to plant and grow [the equivalent of] 1.6 Amazon Rainforests for a 40 year period.

I'm not saying that this is a bad solution, only that it is an incomplete solution. We should probably plant trees in areas where it makes sense and is easy to do, but we'll still need an epic-level solution to the problem.

The numbers aren't as daunting as you think. The Earth has about 3 trillion trees. There used to be 6 trillion... most of those we cut down over the last 2 centuries. Planting is way easier than cutting. I think it's doable.

Greenspan believed the financial sector would self-regulate

Japanese culture makes effective crisis management difficult in situations where the solution doesn't revolve around peacefully queueing up. They should have hired some on-call Americans to Gaijin Smash the crisis.

Oh, and Google says that you are a liar. Those buildings were indeed "created due to voluntary safety measures" by the (military) people who were doing the early work that would eventually become the civilian nuclear industry. This was 2 years before the first "anti-nuclear" protests and about 20 years before the first "anti-nuclear power" protests in the 1970s.

If you CHOOSE to address it by other means than global government taking control and doing massive wealth redistribution etc to try to manipulate emissions, ...

But that's what the Paris Agreement, and all the other climate accords, are doing. As Ottmar Edenhoffer (lead author of the IPCC's fourth climate summary, released in 2007) said in 2010 (Google translate), "But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole." It's no longer about climate; it's about bleeding the 'first world' countries for the benefit of the 'third world' countries.

According to this link and taking some round numbers, an Albizzia lebbek can sequester 70 lbs of CO2 per year.

Assuming a 40-year project lifetime, we would then need 637,765,000,000 trees to pull the mentioned amount out of the atmosphere.

For comparison, the Amazon rainforest has an estimated 390 billion trees.

Dividing these two numbers indicates that the world would have to plant and grow [the equivalent of] 1.6 Amazon Rainforests for a 40 year period.

I'm not saying that this is a bad solution, only that it is an incomplete solution. We should probably plant trees in areas where it makes sense and is easy to do, but we'll still need an epic-level solution to the problem.

Why not shut spotlight down or limit it through settings>Spotlight>Search results/Privacy? If it's _that_ bad it's what I'd do.

Been there, done that. I don't use Apple Mail or any of the apps it wanted to index, so of course I turned those off; same for iCloud. I do use spotlight, so shutting it down entirely would not be an option.

You _have_ attempted to see if a clean install (with no apps/files copied over) has the same issues?

Well, then the 2011's GPU died, and I couldn't get it to boot into a usable state to get files off of it (I did eventually pull the drive and get at the files before wiping the drive and installing Ubuntu on it) and I ran out and bought this machine, that's how I started with this machine. I expected indexing and whatnot for a couple of days, especially given that I the first thing I did was install my IDE (fresh copy downloaded form the vendor) and clone the rather large Git repo I was working on; I also expected that to die down within a week and it did not.

I don't think you get much cleaner of an install than a freshly opened box. This has been an issue from day 1.

Further tests by manually adding in your files and then apps gradually?

Indeed, as explained above I didn't immediately pull the drive from the 2011; I installed just what was needed for my work. When I did pull the drive, a couple weeks later, I used it as an external (USB) drive for a while to get a feel for what I might actually need off that drive and was very selective in what I kept.

Are you sufficiently technical to use dtrace?

Given the nature of my work, I should hope so. Given the fact that I needed a system I could do actual work on and not a full-time maintenance job, the Mac became a secondary machine by the time I might have cared to dig that far into it.

Have you attempted to reset the SMC? Some weird problems can be SMC related.

SMC and PRAM both, for unrelated issues.

As for the powerd issue, well, I'm not the only one seeing it. In fact, a lot of people are. Likewise for the issue and kernel_task RAM and CPU usage.

Given how you are seeing strange issues I begin to wonder if you might have a problem with stowaways.

You mean malware? That thing we've been told over and over doesn't exist on Macs? I'd find it quite ironic if that were the case, given that I have a security background myself and have never had an issue with it on Windows, despite that platform's reputation. That said, I have never seen any odd processes running and rkhunter and clam both report a clean system. I ditched clam and ran WebRoot for a while but it caused its own issues -- but also reported a clean system.

If, by stowaways, you mean holdovers and cruft from a prior OS installation, unless it came that way from the factory we can rule that out right out of the gate. I haven't upgraded this machine past Yosemite, which was the current version when the machine fell out of daily use; and I had these same issues on Mavericks, which the machine shipped with. Yosemite was a clean install, as well.

I'm about to repurpose this machine, so it may see High Sierra (also as a clean install) soon. We'll see if that fixes things, but I won't hold my breath.

Why not shut spotlight down or limit it through settings>Spotlight>Search results/Privacy? If it's _that_ bad it's what I'd do.

Been there, done that. I don't use Apple Mail or any of the apps it wanted to index, so of course I turned those off; same for iCloud. I do use spotlight, so shutting it down entirely would not be an option.

You _have_ attempted to see if a clean install (with no apps/files copied over) has the same issues?

Well, then the 2011's GPU died, and I couldn't get it to boot into a usable state to get files off of it (I did eventually pull the drive and get at the files before wiping the drive and installing Ubuntu on it) and I ran out and bought this machine, that's how I started with this machine. I expected indexing and whatnot for a couple of days, especially given that I the first thing I did was install my IDE (fresh copy downloaded form the vendor) and clone the rather large Git repo I was working on; I also expected that to die down within a week and it did not.

I don't think you get much cleaner of an install than a freshly opened box. This has been an issue from day 1.

Further tests by manually adding in your files and then apps gradually?

Indeed, as explained above I didn't immediately pull the drive from the 2011; I installed just what was needed for my work. When I did pull the drive, a couple weeks later, I used it as an external (USB) drive for a while to get a feel for what I might actually need off that drive and was very selective in what I kept.

Are you sufficiently technical to use dtrace?

Given the nature of my work, I should hope so. Given the fact that I needed a system I could do actual work on and not a full-time maintenance job, the Mac became a secondary machine by the time I might have cared to dig that far into it.

Have you attempted to reset the SMC? Some weird problems can be SMC related.

SMC and PRAM both, for unrelated issues.

As for the powerd issue, well, I'm not the only one seeing it. In fact, a lot of people are. Likewise for the issue and kernel_task RAM and CPU usage.

Given how you are seeing strange issues I begin to wonder if you might have a problem with stowaways.

You mean malware? That thing we've been told over and over doesn't exist on Macs? I'd find it quite ironic if that were the case, given that I have a security background myself and have never had an issue with it on Windows, despite that platform's reputation. That said, I have never seen any odd processes running and rkhunter and clam both report a clean system. I ditched clam and ran WebRoot for a while but it caused its own issues -- but also reported a clean system.

If, by stowaways, you mean holdovers and cruft from a prior OS installation, unless it came that way from the factory we can rule that out right out of the gate. I haven't upgraded this machine past Yosemite, which was the current version when the machine fell out of daily use; and I had these same issues on Mavericks, which the machine shipped with. Yosemite was a clean install, as well.

I'm about to repurpose this machine, so it may see High Sierra (also as a clean install) soon. We'll see if that fixes things, but I won't hold my breath.

Why not shut spotlight down or limit it through settings>Spotlight>Search results/Privacy? If it's _that_ bad it's what I'd do.

Been there, done that. I don't use Apple Mail or any of the apps it wanted to index, so of course I turned those off; same for iCloud. I do use spotlight, so shutting it down entirely would not be an option.

You _have_ attempted to see if a clean install (with no apps/files copied over) has the same issues?

Well, then the 2011's GPU died, and I couldn't get it to boot into a usable state to get files off of it (I did eventually pull the drive and get at the files before wiping the drive and installing Ubuntu on it) and I ran out and bought this machine, that's how I started with this machine. I expected indexing and whatnot for a couple of days, especially given that I the first thing I did was install my IDE (fresh copy downloaded form the vendor) and clone the rather large Git repo I was working on; I also expected that to die down within a week and it did not.

I don't think you get much cleaner of an install than a freshly opened box. This has been an issue from day 1.

Further tests by manually adding in your files and then apps gradually?

Indeed, as explained above I didn't immediately pull the drive from the 2011; I installed just what was needed for my work. When I did pull the drive, a couple weeks later, I used it as an external (USB) drive for a while to get a feel for what I might actually need off that drive and was very selective in what I kept.

Are you sufficiently technical to use dtrace?

Given the nature of my work, I should hope so. Given the fact that I needed a system I could do actual work on and not a full-time maintenance job, the Mac became a secondary machine by the time I might have cared to dig that far into it.

Have you attempted to reset the SMC? Some weird problems can be SMC related.

SMC and PRAM both, for unrelated issues.

As for the powerd issue, well, I'm not the only one seeing it. In fact, a lot of people are. Likewise for the issue and kernel_task RAM and CPU usage.

Given how you are seeing strange issues I begin to wonder if you might have a problem with stowaways.

You mean malware? That thing we've been told over and over doesn't exist on Macs? I'd find it quite ironic if that were the case, given that I have a security background myself and have never had an issue with it on Windows, despite that platform's reputation. That said, I have never seen any odd processes running and rkhunter and clam both report a clean system. I ditched clam and ran WebRoot for a while but it caused its own issues -- but also reported a clean system.

If, by stowaways, you mean holdovers and cruft from a prior OS installation, unless it came that way from the factory we can rule that out right out of the gate. I haven't upgraded this machine past Yosemite, which was the current version when the machine fell out of daily use; and I had these same issues on Mavericks, which the machine shipped with. Yosemite was a clean install, as well.

I'm about to repurpose this machine, so it may see High Sierra (also as a clean install) soon. We'll see if that fixes things, but I won't hold my breath.

Did was some big product launch? The free Maps API wasn't a good choice.

js?key=AIzaSyDzGM_p6TFSrR7xtvan6loYKJcqJ5hx2yE:40 You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API.
We recommend enabling billing to get a higher quota: https://developers.google.com/...

Sure. Here you go ...

Just in case you weren't aware, I actually used that correctly.

About the first google hit refers to the study. See https://books.google.com/books...

Electric wins *more* in hilly terrain because it can climb grades faster, and regens on the downslopes.

Salt isn't going to attack electric vehicle tractors any more than ICE tractors. And the vehicle uses a smooth belly pan anyway, it's not like the underside is a bunch of exposed wiring.

Batteries that are discharged over the course of 7 hours are not "stressed". And Tesla batteries have superb longevity (check the charts/graphs tab).

Didn't ICBMs use variations in gravity? Or at least they're rumoured to - I don't think anyone would confirm something like that.

https://books.google.com/books...

When all the secrets of those at the top are exposed then the secrets of those below them can be accessible and not before.

Secrets? What secrets? For years Slashdot has given high praise to people asserting, information can not be "stolen"... And now, suddenly, it can be... Confusing, is not it?

go on ask google to give you a copy, go on let's see the results,

It may be harder with other companies, but Google (claims to) makes it easy.

ask them to correct or delete it

You aren't any more entitled to that, than your ex is entitled to wiping your memory about your happy times together. Contrary to what some may claim, there is no "right to be forgotten".

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https://www.google.com/patents...

The rest of their patents are linked as references.

Jesus Mary and Joseph...
I didn't realize I was defending a doctoral thesis here..
deaths from coal mining: https://arlweb.msha.gov/stats/...
non-mining deaths from coal: http://www.catf.us/resources/p...
Air pollution and health, from the lancet: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
deaths attributable to AGW, so much here I'm not going to pick one: google scholar link, knock yourself out.. https://scholar.google.com/sch...
deaths attributable to Chernobyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... I think you will find the numbers of the last link, are a tad smaller than the numbers in the first ones.

Now, would their be anything else, how was this morning's bowel movement, do you need me to go over your bum with a wet-wipe???

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The First Amendment protects you and me from the government. It does not protect you and me from each other. If you say something about me I don't like, I can sue you. Of course, whether I win is another matter.

You should read the Supreme Court's opinion in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.. In summary, it says that to comply with the 1A, States cannot impose strict liability on libel/defamation lawsuits.

In fact, the very first sentence of the opinion is about the interaction between the 1A and defamation.

This Court has struggled for nearly a decade to define the proper accommodation between the law of defamation and the freedoms of speech and press protected by the First Amendment. With this decision we return to that effort.

TLDR of the opinion: States can have libel laws, but to comply with the 1A, they have to structured so the plaintiff proves at least negligence in addition to the falsehood. The Court decided in other places that there is an even higher standard for speech about a "public figure", but Gertz is the lower bar for suits by private individuals.

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Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster from local RAM!

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I've used it for years and never even heard of this.

But it was literally one Google search to figure out how to disable it. Total time: 2 minutes from figuring how what to search for, changing the setting and then restarting Chrome.

Probably less time than I spent writing this post and checking that the link is correct.

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There is a very simple way to make people feel "special" in a multiplayer environment like MMOs: Special loot that you have to "earn". Whatever "earning" it may mean. Throwing insane amounts of time into grinding the same mob until it drops it with its 0.0000000000001% chance, besting some tough dungeon that you need a very well equipped and cooperating group for, winning many PvP battles (and more than 90% of the playerbase), whatever. What's important is that everyone thinks they can get it but only a handful really can.

Oh wow, I had a flashback to another story when I was reading your comment. Does anyone else remember when Star Wars Galaxies tried this very idea? As I remember it, people hated it because of how big of a time sink it was to achieve and how practically nobody would ever do it (and if they did, they'd be so burned out by the game they would just sell the account once they got a Jedi). So SOE later made a change that made it way easier to be a Jedi (I don't remember the details as I never actually played SWG, but followed MMO news closely). As a result, pretty much everyone had a Jedi character and Jedi were a completely un-special and uninteresting class compared to what they were before.

The real irony is that, if this Google search is correct, EA was one of the developers/publishers for SWG involved in that original debacle almost 15 years ago.

It seems that people don't like the ability to feel special in a multiplayer game if they realize they have practically a 0% chance to be special. This shouldn't be at all surprising to anyone, yet it apparently came as a great surprise to EA twice in 15 years.

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Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
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Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

Addons = ClarityRay defeatable & crippled http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

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Hosts protect when addons can't (or as well):

Bad sites (past ads)
Botnet C&Cs
DNS down/poisoned
Trackers (dns logs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
Dns blocks
Spam/phish payload
Slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes
Hosts = Ez edit.

AB+ 151mb https://www.google.com/search?q=Adblock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

UBlock 64MB https://www.google.com/search?q=UBlock+memory+consumption&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1/

Hosts~6mb

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NoScript tag parses. Hosts block script prior to it!

No 1 addon does as much.

Stacked addons slowup.

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Chrome has been talking about a solution, but they aren't there yet.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/ch...

In the meanwhile, I use a Google Chrome extension that is growing more out of date since the author moved on to other things.

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

https://github.com/Eloston/dis...

I use ublock and umatrix too, so I basically just use the extension to prevent autoplay on sites I actually want to view content on.

No doubt about it, wasm has all the problems that all other prior attempts at sand-boxing binary blobs of code in the web browser have had. You hit the major ones.

Here's the thing though, the web circa 10 years ago had 3 competing mechanisms to implement sand-boxed binary blobs:

1. Adobe Flash
2. Java
3. Silverlight
Prototypes for Google NaCl were starting to show up around this time too.

All of these had their own sand-box implementation, and they were not sand-boxed themselves, so the surface area for attack was much higher. So HTML 5 tried to do away with that, but then PNaCl and asm.js show us that no matter how hard we try to get rid of binary blobs of code on the web, someone implements it anyway. So, given that there have been persistent attempts by the various large web players for the past 20 years to build binary code blobs in to web pages, and that there is no sign of it slowing down, the most sensible compromise to me is basically what wasm has become... a standardized mechanism for building those binary blobs that can be directly integrated in to the browser.

It does have its problems like you note, but its better that we only have 1 standardized sand-box implementation, and that sand-box implementation is bundled in with a bunch of other high risk code as part of the browser package, which is easy to keep vigilantly updated. Even before wasm, gone were the days of the web browser being a simple document layout renderer. The web browser is basically a visualized operating system... Google has taken this to IHMO a very dangerous extreme, see the Javascript USB API for example. The web browser is basically a run time for USB device drivers at this point. To me wasm seems like the inevitable end result of the path that HTML 5 started us down.

The Device cleaner goes through the phone and cleans the system memory, improves phone or tablet performance, and improves battery life. And the best part is, it's completely free. There are other ram faster apps out there, but usually most users simply add layers of complication to a process that you do not need. Not a power user, just want a faucet solution to speed up the phone. ram cleaner without ads is exactly that. Just fire up the app and touch the Boost. https://play.google.com/store/...

Note that if your MacBook Pro keyboard has an Enter key shaped like the letter "L", and an extra key between Z and left shift, you are not using a US keyboard. And the UK Pounds sign has been option-3 on the Macintosh since it first appeared in 1984.

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Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirect (99++% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + DNS tracking & lighten DNS load & resolve faster from local RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in a FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/ (self checking code vs. infection of it built-in)