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When Joel returned, I could look over his shoulder as he surfed the Net. It was weird but oddly riveting to see his cursor click, click, click its way across my screen. But in the end, there were no busty babes, no Catholic school girls looking for trouble. He actually spent most of his time on CNN.com...
Surfing the internet feels anonymous, like looking through the pages of a magazine in a library. But the websites you visit can look back at you. Many use "cookies" to collect data about your visit--where you go in the site, what links you click on. There was a blowup last year when it appeared that Internet advertising agency Doubleclick would match up its cookies with data from an off-line marketing company that had names, addresses and phone numbers of 88 million Americans. That plan, since abandoned, would have let the company create personal profiles of individuals and their...
...spoofing." Federal officials said the Russians tried to create a counterfeit website mimicking the real home page of PayPal, the popular online fund-transfer service. PayPal has been hit with such spoofs several times. When a fake site was operating, hackers e-mailed PayPal users and got them to click on a hyperlink with the spoof site's domain name: www.paypai.com On many computers, a capital I looks identical to the l at the end of the word PayPal...
...Curtesy of Dan Clowes Dan Clowes' rejected, original cover for "Bizarro Comics." Click on it for a larger view in a separate window...
...FORGET THE NET. FORGET THE ADS. No more than 15% of jobs are found this way. Almost all successful searches start with people you already know. Open the classified ads and click on the Internet job site only after 7 p.m. Spend most of your time interviewing and making contacts to set up the next interview. The newspaper and Net can be valuable sources--for their local news and business sections. There you will find info about companies coming to town or expansions by existing ones, including details on key people to contact...