Try your local land mobile radio dealer. The prices you mention seem a bit high.

The alternatives to Adobe Acrobat I played the most with are Microsoft Word 2010 and LibreOffice. Neither of these will let you digitally sign, encryp...

In my Vermont town, opening the binding to make a good copy is just fine. The food, drink, and sloppy placement of the loose pages, not so much.

What the locals call "wild parsnip" is widespread in west-central Vermont. It's rumored to have the same kind of bad effects as giant hogweed. " haven...

I notice that GIS is largely about looking up and correlating spatial information. Much of land surveying has been about boundary surveys. But the spa...

I also use Password Safe. It's recommended by Bruce Schneier who knows some stuff about ciphers and seems fairly sensible. Also, a Linux version is av...

What about the monuments? Would you rather have 4 or 8?

The fall foliage varies in time and intensity from year to year. In Vermont, near Lake Champlain tends to peak earlier than rest of the state. Your tr...

My signature is reasonably legible, and hasn't changed much since grade school. I think the big impact is what if the person who drew up a document di...

ID requirements are getting tighter every year. I sure hope Toad doesn't have his name that way on his deed.

retryI did not try to do it with a pencil first. When I play with crypto, I prefer to look at other aspects. For example, did you know that if two peo...

retryI see the solution has one mistake and the same cleartext letter corresponds to two ciperthext letters.I suspected that substitution ciphers had ...

Reminds me of the donut exec where I used to work. If you came across an unattended, unlocked computer, you would just type donut on the keyboard, and...

I have the impression GIS tools have a way to go before they're ready for millimeter accuracy long term data. Aren't they kind of fuzzy about which vi...

".our data is cr*p."Just to be clear, the CA head honcho meant that the data obtained and used by the GIS community is crap, right? "Our" didn't mean ...

So what if the deed gives the metes and bounds from 1953, and goes on to say "The premises herein described contain about 3.1 acres and are the same a...

There was a piece in this month's Scientific American saying that an informal survey showed that even scientists who study insects don't like spiders....

I've read that in the CryptoLocker case, selected files on the hard drive are encrypted. If the ransom isn't paid in the allotted time, the decryption...

No school buses for parochial schools back then, so I was walking from school to the nearest point the chartered bus was allowed to come, due to city ...

A more analytical approach would be to use the binomial distribution (specifically, as provided by Excel). Still make the approximation that the numbe...