What I’m Reading, April 1, 2014

NOTE: None of these links are in any way related to April Fool’s Day, however much one might like to think otherwise.

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The War on Christmas is On! These Christians Are Angry That a School District Renamed Christmas Break ‘Winter Recess’, Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist, March 29, 2014

Damn, it must be good to be a Christian. This is the sort of thing that makes your blood boil?! Atheists are working on things like getting openly-non-theistic people elected to public office… meanwhile, McNulty’s angry because the universe doesn’t completely revolve around her.

Target Had Chance to Stop Breach, Senators Say, Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, March 26, 2014

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said at a hearing that the hacking last year of Target, one of the nation’s largest retailers, “must be a clarion call to businesses, both large and small, that it’s time to invest in some changes.”

Senators Rockefeller and Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said that Target’s failure to heed warning signs of incursions by cybercriminals ultimately was the fault of its top executives.

“The best technology in the world is useless unless there’s good management,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “And here, to be quite blunt, there were multiple warnings from the company’s anti-intrusion software; they were missed by management.”

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