Hi Leeann, glad to see you post. If you want Serasee (Momordica Charantia) for your Self Heal, let me know, thanks. You have a great list. May be we can trade for a couple of items? Bea

Thank you Owbist. On the occasion I have to work with a tech like I just did with an apple tech they confirm what you said. LOL By the way I had a real problem with an upgrade on Itunes. I called and companies usually blame the user but I had proof tthis time and the young tech called his supervisor then he walked me through a fix. It had made my cd/dvd drive icon disappear and unusable. I found a fix on the net that worked then my itunes didn't. So I went round and round for awhile. It all works now.

Yes, it's spam and it's called spoofing as mentioned. While it's not technically "dangerous" to open them, you could be asking for more spam by opening it. Often they'll put in a little code to tell if you've opened it and that verifies the email address. A verified email address is worth much more than an unverified one in the spamming world. Not unlike a known telephone number is worth more to a telemarketer. When you get this stuff, delete it, or pay the price. OJ, sometimes people will do the right thing and use BCC when they send mail to multiple people. They usually put their own address in the "To" field and "BCC" the others so addresses will be hidden. It's the right thing to do. Now that doesn't mean that it's *not* spam though! :) People who send to everyone in their address book and not BCC, and also the people who just forward hoaxes and other junk should have their computers confiscated.

There has been some talk of having laws requiring that there be a human operator ready to take over when the computer system determines that it is out of its depth. At first this seems like a reasonable precaution, but it neglects to factor in that the human likely won't have been paying attention, isn't aware of the current situation and then must very quickly grab the controls, assess the current situation, figure out what to do to avoid the situation and then start to .... >>CRASH<< The only benefit to such a system where the human is placed in charge in case of emergency, is to allow the autonomous car company to dodge blame saying "We notified the driver of the problem, he/she didn't respond correctly so they are to blame." I'd expect it will be 5 years or so before they are anything but a rarity, and perhaps 10 years before the odds of seeing one in a normal day of driving would be > 50%. During that time the autonomous cars may be a higher risk to those around them then the average driver. Simply given that you can often expect the bad behavior a bad driver will engage in. Whereas an autonomous car might choose entirely novel, completely unexpected actions when its sensor data or control algorithms are confused. If it is solely about safety for the driver and those in the vehicle, and those in proximity to the car, there are many technological measures that could be implemented using some of the same technologies that are being developed that would be vastly easier to bring to fruition then fully autonomous vehicles. Using similar sensors that might eventually allow autonomous control the vehicle cold determine when the driver is engaging in bad behavior: texting, running red lights, excessive speeding, lane departures, and then take some action to signal that behavior or correct it or punish it (For instance a system that detected every attempt to send or receive a text message while the phone and automatically added a fine to that person's phone bill)