TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!

My iPad keeps telling me that I may have won $1000. I NEVER reply to such ads. The virus I get will be expensive to fix, or I will get LOTS of trash emails and NO money.

Some of the email offers I get have fooled large law firms. Everyone seems to want something for nothing. I NEVER download an attachment unless I know who it is from and what it is about.

Emails from banks asking for ID information, Amazon free gift cards, warnings to change my password RIGHT NOW by clicking on a provided link -- all get my distain.

Even with all my vigilance, I still got a virus today. My entire computer stopped with a notice to call Microsoft at 855-624-0094. I panicked, took a photo of my screen and called my trusted techies at CorpWest in Campbell, CA. I followed their advice and my computer is now working and virus free. THANK YOU CorpWest.

Many people seem to be focused on the Mexican border. BAD guys can come into our country, they say. I have actually known many undocumented people. As a disabled person, sometimes the undocumented are the only persons I can find who are willing to work for a few hours moving boxes and cleaning floors and windows.

If we would stop the FUTILE War on Some Drugs, then the drug violence will stop in the same way that the bootlegger violence stopped when prohibition was repealed.

What is actually really hurting the old, the poor, the credulous, and the trusting, is the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS STOLEN BY HACKERS.

If you stupidly give out your banking password to a fake bank website, the bank can take the position that they are not responsible for the subsequent theft. Since the thieves are almost always NOT in the U.S., law enforcement has almost no way to get your money back or to put the thieves in jail.

It is my humble opinion that WWIII will be fought on the internet.

So is our country ready for the fight? Most of us have computers that are more modern than the computers used by most of the federal government. Many of the government's computers can not even load modern virus software.

Some of our power plants are using computers which take large floppy disks. I hope they are copying the disks often, as the floppy with my book died. I am lucky I kept a paper copy.

We are becoming more and more dependent on wireless communications. If cell phone towers go down, we will be helpless to even navigate home if our usual road is blocked.

Hordes of strawberry picking Mexicans pose WAY LESS danger than HACKERS living half a world away.

--BTW, the free trash pick up offered by California Waste Solutions is not free. The person paying the garbage bill can get two free pickups in one year, ending in July, I think.