I can't truthfully say that I noticed a performance difference, but let's say that it seems that there should be. (a difference here and there can add to an entire experience) Anyways, I've had a Tier 2 Opennic server for awhile now and I've been happy with it. Also, looking at the root zone via a text editor can be interesting to see where all of the TLDs point to. Don't forget that you have much more access to other TLDs that ICANN doesn't endorse since Opennic peers with other namespaces.
Verizon Wireless emerged the victor from what could be one of the country's first cases of wireless spamming.
The country's largest wireless carrier, based in Bedminster, N.J., said it had reached a settlement with Acacia National Mortgage, which calls for the lender to stop sending repeated, unsolicited commercial text messages to Verizon Wireless customers.
Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed, including any possible remuneration for message recipients, who under some plans are charged a per-message fee. Under the Colorado state antispam law on which Verizon based its case, recipients or carriers can sue for $10 per message, plus any actual damages.
This is mentioned in the comments of every article posted for the past few weeks. Either,
a.) RTFF b.) Come up with a legally sound solution and tell the editors about it (no, don't post it then whine about the -1 OT score that would be quickly dished out) c.) Accept the/. effect as Something That Could Happen To You(tm) on the net.
If people have sites on servers that can't withstand a beating, (I'm sure mine would be hit hard but possibly survive) or involve high bandwidth and/or cpu load, then do something smart. Setting a password, or installing mod_throttle and setting it up right would be a start. Otherwise, the idea is that it's open to everyone. Slashdot is usually a metanews site. It doesn't mean it's a mirroring metanews site, it provides links to other sites. Now, if someone sets up a script to grab the links off of frontpage articles, cache them with images for 2 hours then dump it, and throw a banner ad or two on it, then karma whore and FP with the cached link, I have no problem with that. I would in fact welcome it.
Sorry for the rant, but complaining has been going on for weeks. Comments can be categorized by funny, interesting, etc. but they should be unique, not the same crap I see on every article.
Before you start torching Rob's house and all of the/. servers, do you think that someone else on your subnet could be responsible for this? Sure, you did it a few days later, but perhaps it's an ongoing problem. Try emailing moderation@ and see what they say before you burn through some karma.
(not my idea, but..) why not just have links within the story compared to previous stories? Seems like this would be pretty accurate and cut down on 80% of the dupes.
In order to reach the same coverage area as the 10 Stratellites, the company would have to install wireless equipment in more than 14,000 cellular towers at a capital cost of $56 million plus annual tower lease cost of $67 million, Lively said.
The new United States Homeland Security agency, created in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, wants telecommunications around major cities improved, and companies have been scrambling to find alternatives to cell towers and landlines, Colting said.
Great, they want reliability in case of a disaster so they think combining 14,000 towers into 10 big balloons is going to be better. Might not be a single point of failure.. but I'd prefer 14,000 points of failure rather than 10.
applications that directly compete with Microsoft etc. E.g. OpenOffice, KDE (I mean they even have a Windows style desktop that comes in the package). Ever think that these copuld be created with the submitter's intentions in mind and also to take profit away from "the suits?"
oops, here's a better link
on
Tornado in a Can
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Sorry about that, here's a direct link to the site.
All lies! Only if the government gives me a ticket to fly over to where the telescope is located and see at it for myself and allow me to check out other things in space to ensure it's not a fake. Then MAYBE I'll believe them. Until then, they're using my tax dollars for secret military projects and spending 5% of it to create these elaborate NASA lies!
But why not release a beta of the code, and if people like it, then use the ransom model. Seems like a good compromise. "hey this code has potential, I'll donate and see how the finished version looks."
pico also has this option, I've made it a common habit to *always* pico -w (file). Also adding a +number opens pico the specified line of a file. Or, if you can use ^W then ^T to go to that line once pico is opened.
Ah what a great discussion to mod, but nonetheless I feel obliged to reply. I suppose I'm a loyal pine user, I've never used anything else. No IMAP, no POP3, no webmail, etc. With the great help of Mysidia, we converted everything to qmail a couple of years ago and pine works just great. (Had to change a config setting in pine, oh no!) Also, I always answer "no" when changing my sent-mail to the new month, so.. according to my sent-mail my first outgoing email was on August 26, 1997.
Er, anyways, to be on topic, I never switched because I have no reason to. What does GUI provide that I don't have besides pretty pictures? I use the keyboard shortcuts just fine, it's fast, I can save attachments and get them via ftp, I can easily send attachments, I hate html emails, but it parses just enough to make them readable, and all of the features are at most 3 keystrokes away, not to mention wrappers for pgp signing and encrypting!
Done. The FCC has some information about the E911 system that carriers like Verizon and Sprint are already rolling out. Basically, it gives the 911 operator your GPS location. This could easily be expanded to other things as well, but many of the higher end and newer cell phones come with it built in. E911 is currently being tested in select areas, but eventually it should become nationwide.
Lindows. If they have any success in 2003, Micro$oft will just sue them into oblivion. If they fail during 2003, Micro$oft will just laugh at them and label them as the Open Source failure. If they break even.. they'll probably just sue anyways to get it over with.
Interesting idea.. but I know of a way that you can see decades of archived magazines and newspapers! Did you know that these places usually let you see movies for free without the MPAA breathing down their necks? I know I should've posted AC because the secret is out. But go here to see what I mean.
I did policy debate for 4 years in high school and last year the resolution was to limit the use of weapons of mass destruction. My affirmative plan (a plan to support the resolution) was to disable the harmful device in HAARP which is better known as the Eastlund patent. [Now to be on topic] Sure enough, our 4th advantage was to prevent reversal of the poles. I'll post pieces of the evidence I used in the tournaments.
In a northern forest of Alaska, a group of antennas stand tall. What looks like a cable television station is really the Pentagon's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP. Capable of sending out a large electromagnetic beam into our ionosphere, it can be targeted back to Earth with its "virtual" mirrors and lenses in a strategic fashion. When completed in 2002, it will have 360 antennas together reaching 1.7 gigawatts of power.
Environmental Online, 1997 [By Tracey C. Rembert, "Discordant HAARP: The Air Force is Preparing to Militarize the Ionosphere-With Electrifying Results", January-February, Volume VIII, Number 1, http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_1997/0 197currhaarp.html]
In a black spruce forest north of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, a bristling array of antennas rises into the air. It looks like a cable television station, but it's something far more ominous: the military's semi-secret High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), designed to give the Pentagon strategic control over the upper atmosphere. HAARP, slated for final completion in 2002, sends out a focused and steerable electromagnetic (EM) beam that can superheat and actually lift sections of the ionosphere--the electrically charged upper layer of our atmosphere lying 40 to 500 miles above the Earth's surface. The EM waves are targeted to bounce back to Earth from "virtual" mirrors and lenses, created by warming specific areas of the ionosphere until they produce a flat or curved shape, capable of strategically redirecting significant amounts of electromagnetic energy.
Stage III of Eastlund's patent is a considerable expansion incorporating HAARP's military defense goals: 360 antennas together reaching 1.7 gigawatts (1,700,000,000 watts) of power, enabling HAARP to alter a significant portion of the ionosphere, and create a virtual mirror theoretically capable of astounding defensive feats.
1AC
The military has admitted that they will use HAARP as a weapon
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 127]
Oblique HF heating is useful for over-the-horizon radar, as well as for many of the other uses desired by the military. We talk about the steering elsewhere, when discussing the use of the HAARP transmitter as the military's long sought after radio frequency radiation weapon. This type of use was first publicly disclosed by an Air Force captain who was reporting on new technologies in a military conference in 1984.
HAARP has the ability to kill entire cities with radiation
Smith, 98 [Jerry E., author of "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy", pg. 9-12, http://www.blazing-trails.com/jesmith/ha/haarpzero.php3]
One might be able to use this transmitter to do more than merely reshape the ionosphere. What if it could "burn" holes into the protective layer? That would allow deadly radiation from outer space to pour through, searing the earth. You could release a burst of radiation over a target as deadly as a nuclear bomb. There would be no explosion, no damage to buildings and equipment. Yet, every living thing within the area exposed would be dead or dying.
This is the true story of one military program that pretends to be a "harmless" civilian research project. It is called HAARP. HAARP is not science fiction. It is a potentially deadly reality. When completed it will be the world's largest radio frequency transmitter.
The experimenters of HAARP admit that they don't know what will happen when HAARP is activated at the next stage
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 57-58]
If the reporter digs a bit farther, however, he or she would find a paper from Penn State, for example. It shows a graph of the hierarchy of the thresholds that increasing input of radio frequency (RF) power makes in the ionosphere. Heating comes first, then "parametric instabilities and stimulated electromagnetic radiation". Pump in more RF power and you accelerate electrons until the air glows. The next threshold is "shock fronts and stimulated ionization". The Penn State experimenters proudly say they don't know what will happen when the new super powerful HAARP instrument drives the effects past a new threshold. 1AC
Thus we present the following plan,
The United States federal government will establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction by acting through Congress to remove Dr. Bernard Eastlund's U.S. Patent #4,686,605 from the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Advantage 4: Pole Shift
The creators of HAARP intended to create a "runaway" effect that would cross into a new energy threshold
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 18]
In documents the HAARP planners put together in 1990 they say that they were intentionally trying to get a "runaway" effect on the ionosphere. This effect was new and would represent an energy threshold not yet reached with these kinds of military tools. The document said "...that at the highest HF (high frequency) powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF (radio frequency) energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached."
If energy like this continues to be released it will trigger a pole shift
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 77]
The Soviets considered the impact of electromagnetic "smog" on living organisms. They concluded that because living organisms evolved under the influence of the Earth's micropulsations in the magnetic field, changes in these pulsations might alter fundamental body rhythms, including the rate that DNA replicates. From the Soviet perspective, electromagnetic pulses can influence everything from health to behavior. Russian scientists are also concerned that continued increases in electromagnetic radiations could contribute to a premature and cataclysmic reversal or position shift of Earth's poles.
1AC
The pole shift caused by HAARP will lead to GLOBAL EXTINCTION
Smith, 98 [Jerry E., author of "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy", pg. 109-110]
The May 1992 issue of Discovery Magazine discussed what might result from disrupting the Earth's internal "dynamo" and altering the upper atmospheres magnetic belts, saying; HAARP could create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles
During a reversal of the magnetic pole the strength of the Earth's magnetic field would collapse, then rebuild in the opposite polarity. During the period of collapse and rebirth of the field, the Earth would be without the protection of the magnetosphere, the only living things to survive would be deep in the earth or the sea. Humanity, and virtually all species that live exposed to the sky would be wiped out by the flood of hard radiation from the sun and space. Changes in the Earth's interior are known to affect the magnetosphere. If the reversal is the cause of the magnetosphere affecting the interior, then ignorant or intentional misuse of HAARP has the potential to virtually wipe out life on Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't truthfully say that I noticed a performance difference, but let's say that it seems that there should be. (a difference here and there can add to an entire experience) Anyways, I've had a Tier 2 Opennic server for awhile now and I've been happy with it. Also, looking at the root zone via a text editor can be interesting to see where all of the TLDs point to. Don't forget that you have much more access to other TLDs that ICANN doesn't endorse since Opennic peers with other namespaces.
Quick paste:
Verizon Wireless emerged the victor from what could be one of the country's first cases of wireless spamming.
The country's largest wireless carrier, based in Bedminster, N.J., said it had reached a settlement with Acacia National Mortgage, which calls for the lender to stop sending repeated, unsolicited commercial text messages to Verizon Wireless customers.
Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed, including any possible remuneration for message recipients, who under some plans are charged a per-message fee. Under the Colorado state antispam law on which Verizon based its case, recipients or carriers can sue for $10 per message, plus any actual damages.
Full article is here
I love Verizon Wireless.
This is mentioned in the comments of every article posted for the past few weeks. Either,
/. effect as Something That Could Happen To You(tm) on the net.
a.) RTFF
b.) Come up with a legally sound solution and tell the editors about it (no, don't post it then whine about the -1 OT score that would be quickly dished out)
c.) Accept the
If people have sites on servers that can't withstand a beating, (I'm sure mine would be hit hard but possibly survive) or involve high bandwidth and/or cpu load, then do something smart. Setting a password, or installing mod_throttle and setting it up right would be a start. Otherwise, the idea is that it's open to everyone. Slashdot is usually a metanews site. It doesn't mean it's a mirroring metanews site, it provides links to other sites. Now, if someone sets up a script to grab the links off of frontpage articles, cache them with images for 2 hours then dump it, and throw a banner ad or two on it, then karma whore and FP with the cached link, I have no problem with that. I would in fact welcome it.
Sorry for the rant, but complaining has been going on for weeks. Comments can be categorized by funny, interesting, etc. but they should be unique, not the same crap I see on every article.
In 1984 history undoes YOU!
Before you start torching Rob's house and all of the /. servers, do you think that someone else on your subnet could be responsible for this? Sure, you did it a few days later, but perhaps it's an ongoing problem. Try emailing moderation@ and see what they say before you burn through some karma.
(not my idea, but..) why not just have links within the story compared to previous stories? Seems like this would be pretty accurate and cut down on 80% of the dupes.
RTFF.
In order to reach the same coverage area as the 10 Stratellites, the company would have to install wireless equipment in more than 14,000 cellular towers at a capital cost of $56 million plus annual tower lease cost of $67 million, Lively said.
The new United States Homeland Security agency, created in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, wants telecommunications around major cities improved, and companies have been scrambling to find alternatives to cell towers and landlines, Colting said.
Great, they want reliability in case of a disaster so they think combining 14,000 towers into 10 big balloons is going to be better. Might not be a single point of failure.. but I'd prefer 14,000 points of failure rather than 10.
As I see it, this is good for two things.
1. The spammer stops spamming.
2. Starts a trend of spam not being profitable
applications that directly compete with Microsoft etc. E.g. OpenOffice, KDE (I mean they even have a Windows style desktop that comes in the package). Ever think that these copuld be created with the submitter's intentions in mind and also to take profit away from "the suits?"
Sorry about that, here's a direct link to the site.
Oh the power of google and the wayback machine combined!
Polifka's webpage for the Windhexe
All lies! Only if the government gives me a ticket to fly over to where the telescope is located and see at it for myself and allow me to check out other things in space to ensure it's not a fake. Then MAYBE I'll believe them. Until then, they're using my tax dollars for secret military projects and spending 5% of it to create these elaborate NASA lies!
Just what the RIAA needs.. a complete audit by the IRS of everything includings its "campaign contributions."
But why not release a beta of the code, and if people like it, then use the ransom model. Seems like a good compromise. "hey this code has potential, I'll donate and see how the finished version looks."
Damn.. I wish I had 10gbps on my T1.
pico also has this option, I've made it a common habit to *always* pico -w (file). Also adding a +number opens pico the specified line of a file. Or, if you can use ^W then ^T to go to that line once pico is opened.
Ah what a great discussion to mod, but nonetheless I feel obliged to reply. I suppose I'm a loyal pine user, I've never used anything else. No IMAP, no POP3, no webmail, etc. With the great help of Mysidia, we converted everything to qmail a couple of years ago and pine works just great. (Had to change a config setting in pine, oh no!) Also, I always answer "no" when changing my sent-mail to the new month, so.. according to my sent-mail my first outgoing email was on August 26, 1997.
Er, anyways, to be on topic, I never switched because I have no reason to. What does GUI provide that I don't have besides pretty pictures? I use the keyboard shortcuts just fine, it's fast, I can save attachments and get them via ftp, I can easily send attachments, I hate html emails, but it parses just enough to make them readable, and all of the features are at most 3 keystrokes away, not to mention wrappers for pgp signing and encrypting!
My name is Adam, and I'm a happy Pine user.
Japan has been looking at Slashdot in Japanese for awhile, though judging from the number of comments, not many people have.
Done. The FCC has some information about the E911 system that carriers like Verizon and Sprint are already rolling out. Basically, it gives the 911 operator your GPS location. This could easily be expanded to other things as well, but many of the higher end and newer cell phones come with it built in. E911 is currently being tested in select areas, but eventually it should become nationwide.
Lindows. If they have any success in 2003, Micro$oft will just sue them into oblivion. If they fail during 2003, Micro$oft will just laugh at them and label them as the Open Source failure. If they break even.. they'll probably just sue anyways to get it over with.
Yay for free subscriptions.. here are some other sources for similar reportings that don't require evil subscriptions.
"Its speed has been increased from 3meters/min. to 15meters/min"
On the plus, they did increase the speed 5 fold, hopefully they can go for more if they want it to be some true security for the home.
Interesting idea.. but I know of a way that you can see decades of archived magazines and newspapers! Did you know that these places usually let you see movies for free without the MPAA breathing down their necks? I know I should've posted AC because the secret is out. But go here to see what I mean.
I did policy debate for 4 years in high school and last year the resolution was to limit the use of weapons of mass destruction. My affirmative plan (a plan to support the resolution) was to disable the harmful device in HAARP which is better known as the Eastlund patent. [Now to be on topic] Sure enough, our 4th advantage was to prevent reversal of the poles. I'll post pieces of the evidence I used in the tournaments.
0 197currhaarp.html]
o .php3]
In a northern forest of Alaska, a group of antennas stand tall. What looks
like a cable television station is really the Pentagon's High-frequency
Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP. Capable of sending out
a large electromagnetic beam into our ionosphere, it can be targeted back to
Earth with its "virtual" mirrors and lenses in a strategic fashion. When
completed in 2002, it will have 360 antennas together reaching 1.7 gigawatts
of power.
Environmental Online, 1997 [By Tracey C. Rembert, "Discordant HAARP: The Air
Force is Preparing to Militarize the Ionosphere-With Electrifying Results",
January-February, Volume VIII, Number 1,
http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_1997/
In a black spruce forest north of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, a bristling array of antennas rises into the air. It looks like a cable television station, but it's something far more ominous: the military's semi-secret High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), designed to give the Pentagon strategic control over the upper atmosphere. HAARP, slated for final completion in 2002, sends out a focused and steerable electromagnetic (EM) beam that can superheat and actually lift sections of the ionosphere--the electrically charged upper layer of our atmosphere lying 40 to 500 miles above the Earth's surface. The EM waves are targeted to bounce back to Earth from "virtual" mirrors and lenses, created by warming specific areas of the ionosphere until they produce a flat or curved shape, capable of strategically redirecting significant amounts of electromagnetic energy.
Stage III of Eastlund's patent is a considerable expansion incorporating HAARP's military defense goals: 360 antennas together reaching 1.7 gigawatts (1,700,000,000 watts) of power, enabling HAARP to alter a significant portion of the ionosphere, and create a virtual mirror theoretically capable of astounding defensive feats.
1AC
The military has admitted that they will use HAARP as a weapon
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 127]
Oblique HF heating is useful for over-the-horizon radar, as well as for many of the other uses desired by the military. We talk about the steering elsewhere, when discussing the use of the HAARP transmitter as the military's long sought after radio frequency radiation weapon. This type of use was first publicly disclosed by an Air Force captain who was reporting on new technologies in a military conference in 1984.
HAARP has the ability to kill entire cities with radiation
Smith, 98 [Jerry E., author of "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy", pg. 9-12, http://www.blazing-trails.com/jesmith/ha/haarpzer
One might be able to use this transmitter to do more than merely reshape the ionosphere. What if it could "burn" holes into the protective layer? That would allow deadly radiation from outer space to pour through, searing the earth. You could release a burst of radiation over a target as deadly as a nuclear bomb. There would be no explosion, no damage to buildings and equipment. Yet, every living thing within the area exposed would be dead or dying.
This is the true story of one military program that pretends to be a "harmless" civilian research project. It is called HAARP. HAARP is not science fiction. It is a potentially deadly reality. When completed it will be the world's largest radio frequency transmitter.
The experimenters of HAARP admit that they don't know what will happen when HAARP is activated at the next stage
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 57-58]
If the reporter digs a bit farther, however, he or she would find a paper from Penn State, for example. It shows a graph of the hierarchy of the thresholds that increasing input of radio frequency (RF) power makes in the ionosphere. Heating comes first, then "parametric instabilities and stimulated electromagnetic radiation". Pump in more RF power and you accelerate electrons until the air glows. The next threshold is "shock fronts and stimulated ionization". The Penn State experimenters proudly say they don't know what will happen when the new super powerful HAARP instrument drives the effects past a new threshold.
1AC
Thus we present the following plan,
The United States federal government will establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction by acting through Congress to remove Dr. Bernard Eastlund's U.S. Patent #4,686,605 from the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Advantage 4: Pole Shift
The creators of HAARP intended to create a "runaway" effect that would cross into a new energy threshold
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 18]
In documents the HAARP planners put together in 1990 they say that they were intentionally trying to get a "runaway" effect on the ionosphere. This effect was new and would represent an energy threshold not yet reached with these kinds of military tools. The document said "...that at the highest HF (high frequency) powers available in the West, the instabilities commonly studied are approaching their maximum RF (radio frequency) energy dissipative capability, beyond which the plasma processes will 'runaway' until the next limiting factor is reached."
If energy like this continues to be released it will trigger a pole shift
Begich and Manning, 95 [Dr. Nick and Jeane, (independent scientists studying HAARP) Nick - Doctor of physics from the Open International Institute; Jeane - Member of the Auckland Institute, Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, p. 77]
The Soviets considered the impact of electromagnetic "smog" on living organisms. They concluded that because living organisms evolved under the influence of the Earth's micropulsations in the magnetic field, changes in these pulsations might alter fundamental body rhythms, including the rate that DNA replicates. From the Soviet perspective, electromagnetic pulses can influence everything from health to behavior. Russian scientists are also concerned that continued increases in electromagnetic radiations could contribute to a premature and cataclysmic reversal or position shift of Earth's poles.
1AC
The pole shift caused by HAARP will lead to GLOBAL EXTINCTION
Smith, 98 [Jerry E., author of "HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy", pg. 109-110]
The May 1992 issue of Discovery Magazine discussed what might result from disrupting the Earth's internal "dynamo" and altering the upper atmospheres magnetic belts, saying; HAARP could create a premature reversal of the magnetic poles
During a reversal of the magnetic pole the strength of the Earth's magnetic field would collapse, then rebuild in the opposite polarity. During the period of collapse and rebirth of the field, the Earth would be without the protection of the magnetosphere, the only living things to survive would be deep in the earth or the sea. Humanity, and virtually all species that live exposed to the sky would be wiped out by the flood of hard radiation from the sun and space. Changes in the Earth's interior are known to affect the magnetosphere. If the reversal is the cause of the magnetosphere affecting the interior, then ignorant or intentional misuse of HAARP has the potential to virtually wipe out life on Earth.