VIA BBC News: A French policeman has been killed near Paris in a shootout with gunmen who officials said might be linked to the Basque separatist group Eta. A man arrested after the shooting identified himself as a Basque Eta member, Spanish newspapers reported. French officials told AFP news agency that the involvement of Eta [...]
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From A Time To Betray, a blog written by an Iranian, Reza Kahlili (a pseudonym), an Iranian now living in the United States who was for a time a CIA contract agent. The US State Department on Tuesday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing [...]
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Tweet The Mobley Factor. Suppose a terrorist or one sympathetic to their cause works at a solar power plant or a wind farm. The damage that he or she can do – knock out a wind turbine, a string of solar modules, even kill a few co-workers, while serious, is minimal. But suppose a terrorist [...]
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Fred Mogul of WNYC radio reports, with host Richard Hake on a settlement of injury claims by responders at Ground Zero: After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million [...]
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Randy Sarafan defies easy description. He’s clearly a polymath of some sort, a provocateur watch film of more than one sort, and a cannon (perhaps loose perhaps not) on the deck of technology. Even a quick look at his work makes it clear that his excellent contributions to “appropriate technology” don’t preclude the occasional foray [...]
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Via BBC News: | US officials are investigating how a child was apparently allowed to direct planes at New York’s JFK airport – one of the country’s busiest. The probe comes after an audiotape caught the boy directing several pilots preparing for take-off last month. In one exchange, the boy is heard saying: “JetBlue 171 [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.