Target Knew About Its Massive Hack—It Just Didn't Do Anything to Stop It

Target Knew About Its Massive Hack—It Just Didn't Do Anything to Stop It

Throughout the total absurdity that’s been the aftermath of Target’s massive data breach , one question has continued to persist unanswered: Why the hell didn’t one of the biggest retailers in the country have sufficient security software? Well, the thing is—it did. It just ignored it .

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Setting the Record Straight: Debunking All the Flu Vaccine Myths

Setting the Record Straight: Debunking All the Flu Vaccine Myths

It’s that time again — that time when dozens of spurious articles pop up all over the web touting all the dangers of the flu vaccine. Articles on unreliable, alarmist, misinformative sites like Natural News, Mercola, chiropractic blogs and other such sites rail against the “toxins” in the vaccine, or claim the flu vaccine doesn’t work, or that it causes this or that horrible disease, or that the flu itself just really isn’t all that bad. (I’m not going to link to any of them. They get too much attention as it is.)

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Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Amazon’s warehouses, especially at Christmastime, have to be a perfectly greased, gargantuan machine in order to meet the needs of its hundreds of millions of clients. We’re less likely, however, to look beyond the company’s impressive exterior at the individual pieces that make it run—Amazon’s very human employees. More »