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Sometimes, as Stuart Moore writes in Wolverine: Under the Boardwalk, you just gotta disappear.
Source: www.popmatters.com
Where does cyber security analysis connect to comics? Article author shathley Q (@uuizardry on Twitter), in his attempt to step away from ComicCon, apparently stepped right back into the world of comics while watching a TEDx talk by cyber security analyst Cris Domas.
Domas, overwhelmed at looking through the massive quantities of binary code, discovered that the visual patterns this non-visual data creates could surface regular patterns…images… shapes..
Furthermore, like comics, which depends on images that build on everything from visual symbols to symbolic (iconographic) imagery, it’s possible to use the “sequential” side of the sequential art to further understand and recognize patterns, particularly, for the case of security, where regular, or expected patterns are broken.
Shathley Q may, in this article, want to step back a little from comics, but the ethos seems to be everywhere he looks. As should we.
Oculus has suspended sales of its Rift virtual reality headset in China because people are reselling it.
Oculus recently began shipping the latest version…
Source: www.eurogamer.net
From a Kickstarter campaign to a Facebook purchase, the Oculus Rift story is probably the biggest news in Augmented Reality since… well, ever!
But the device is still only available “for development”, as that’s the agreement you’ll have to sign when you purchase units from their site.
Never mind that, apparently the number of “developers” in China is so overwhelming, Oculus has decided to suspend selling units to China for now, as they fear the massive resale of these very same development units and the profits generated (not to the Oculus people, of course).
A consumer unit is in the works for later in the year, but in the meantime, sales are for developers only in (undeclared) moderate quantities, please. But not to China.
