During Petzold’s preliminary hearing on Oct. 1, 2023, the Crown called RCMP [supposed] digital forensic expert Const. Wilson Yee to explain his analysis of the email on Marguerite’s laptop.
Petzold's defence lawyer Ian McKay then had a chance to cross-examine.
He asked Yee about the email “headers” — metadata contained in the digital file that is not typically seen by the end user unless they specifically go looking for it.
The email headers read, in part: "Received: From Emkei.CZ".
That website, based in the Czech Republic, describes itself as a "free online fake mailer” and allows users to send emails that can appear to come from any sender.
> That map projection is the worst choice possible.
For navigation, the Mercator projection is useful, because a straight line on the chart is where you go with a constant bearing. Aerial navigation is waypoint/bearing/waypoint/bearing. So most aviation maps are Mercator.
I choose not to install any banking app and do my banking in incognito mode so that any malefactor who somehow gets into my device can't see where I bank.
Of course that leaves security in the hands of the browser.
Gyroscopic precession took the left engine to the right. In AA 191 the right engine departing to the right did not affect the center engine. Sadly the engine failure procedure at the time mandated slowing down to V2 which was below the stall speed with slats retracted. There's now revised procedure and hydraulic fuses.
I expect all remaining aircraft will be getting new rear pylon lugs with shortened inspection intervals - provided the replacement cost is below the value of continued usage.
They have a lot in common with housecats, except that they are more clever. Decades ago we heard a crunch crunch sound from the rear mudroom. We looked and saw a raccoon reaching in and eating dry cat out of a box with the cat looking on enviously.
Camping I heard a crunching sound, looked out from the tent to see a racoon helping itself to granola in the back of the car. Lock your doors.
"The people writing COBOL and FORTRAN on mainframes - I got my start writing C and FORTRAN on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes - didn’t speak about the joys of programming. They clocked in, clocked out and went on about their lives."
FORTRAN was my first language in the 60s and I ENJOYED using it until "better" languages came along.
I debugged COBOL and once taught SQL to COBOL programmers while refusing to write anything in it.
I had my best fun with mainframe Assembler and CMS Pipelines.
I’m 100% sure that your passion didn’t come from growing up with computers in your home and hanging out with other computer nerds like the parent poster said. You also didn’t go home after work doing side projects on your home computer or contributing to open source.
By definition, before the late 70s, you had to leave your job at work and didn’t code on your free time unless you went into the office.
There were times I took a dial up terminal home. Before that in university, we had to punch our own card decks.
I didn't need to be at the office to write programs. All I need is a pad of paper (with maybe a few manuals) and a nice place where I can concentrate without interruptions.
It's become a lottery similar to pursuing a professional sports career. Similar to professional sports, the career duration is short. There's always kids coming up trained in the technology du jour who will work long hours for peanuts that employers will happily hire while they dump the expensive old guys.
You can do extraordinarily well as a founder if you find an opportunity, get it to market and build a moat that competitors can't surmount.
The Immigration and Nationality Act is a moving target. Periodically it is amended, or the Supreme Court strikes down certain provisions.
Having been born to a Canadian father in the US and moved to Canada when I was nine, my US citizenship lapsed when I turned 25 in Canada (I was quite happy to stay in Canada during the Vietnam war during my twenties). At the time I was unaware of the INA provisions repealed in 1978 that lapsed my US citizenship.
New FATCA and IRS obligations motivated me to research my US citizenship status and I was happy to discover that it had lapsed.
US Customs officers sometimes ask questions when I show up with a Canadian passport with a US birthplace. Now I pull out my copy of State Department FAM 1200 APPENDIX C to explain my status, but the legalese is a challenge for people with just high school.
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Strangely, I think you might qualify to run for the presidency. Nothing in the Constitution demands that you be a current citizen, only a natural-born one... which, assuming the date was late enough, you certainly were. McCain though, I don't think he made the cut.
The surgery is not fun. The worst part was the cannula for the subtenon block - not painful, but my anxiety at something being poked into my eye socket went through the roof. My sister opted for sedation after she heard of my experience.
The second operation was easier as I told the surgeon about my reaction to the subtenon block and he put some topical in the right place making it much easier. However the residual anxiety from the first operation remained. All that said, I've had rougher times at the dentist.
I opted for optimal vision at arm's length with a monofocal lens. We spend most of our days around the house. Bifocals with plano below work fine for outdoors, driving and flying (check with your aviation doctor before lens selection as aviation authorities are strict in what lens options are allowed). The depth of field has turned out better than I expected, but I use 1.25 diopter drug store readers when I'm using my tablet at home and put it at arm's length in the coffee shop.
The results are absolutely wonderful and I feel gratitude every time I step outside.
Most people don't get blocks nowadays for cataract surgery. I will do so for patients with wandering eye movements or for more difficult cases, or for more invasive surgery besides cataract surgery. I just did a cataract surgery on a young patient today using topical numbing drops. But I have them monitored by an anesthetist with mild sedation during the entire case.
For my second operation the surgeon basically suggested using some drug ending in -pam (perhaps it was Valium) and they wouldn't provide it over the counter so I had to get a proper prescription, which somehow pissed the surgeon off. At the end of the day, yes, a dentist is worse but the phobia of someone tinkering with your eye remains.
I wanted something simple and didn't want to mess with multifocal lens inside my eye, so opted for monofocal and high myopia correction like around -12 diopters, so after a couple of weeks my far vision felt like I was Superman and my near vision remains poor with zero accommodation.
5 years down the line, it seems the myopia is keeping its course and I need some small correction for far, middle, and reading distances so my drawers are a mess of glasses.
But I keep being grateful for this, I can walk the streets without anything in my eyes and this is something I don't have any memories I can recall. So it's a wonder.
I would gladly go again for that surgery even through the discomfort!
Petzold's defence lawyer Ian McKay then had a chance to cross-examine.
He asked Yee about the email “headers” — metadata contained in the digital file that is not typically seen by the end user unless they specifically go looking for it.
The email headers read, in part: "Received: From Emkei.CZ".
That website, based in the Czech Republic, describes itself as a "free online fake mailer” and allows users to send emails that can appear to come from any sender.
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