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  1. Re:And they wonder why I block ads... on Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware · · Score: 1

    " I reserve the right to pick and choose the fonts, to pick and choose the colours, to pick and choose the pictures, and to pick and choose the bits of content of every web page that's offered to me. "

    I could guarantee you don't have the right and you don't even have the technological capability to do so unless you're intercepting the packets and re-writing the code on the fly.

    Which means you're obviously not using HTTPS and thus you're a moron ripe for security hijacking.

  2. Re:Spot on on Dealership Commentator: Tesla's Going To Win In Every State · · Score: 1

    "In your scenario your going to hate it when you need warranty work and the dealers tell you that you need to take it to an authorized warranty repair center for directly purchased cars."

    Boy, those dealers are going to hate it when I hit them with a breach of the Anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act.

  3. Re:You don't need to make "deals" on Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only · · Score: 2

    "You misspelt nowhere,"

    I haven't had a single problem using Google Wallet anywhere, from TN to CA to WA. That's including stores and banks.

  4. "Video calls? You need a good upload link if you're going to make that work, or the quality is so crappy it won't be workable."

    Please. I've been running Camfrog Video Chats on a 5/1 line for almost a decade without a problem. That's dozens of video cams up at once, with frame rates so fluid deaf people can sign over video chat and be understood perfectly.

  5. APK is why it takes so long on Why Is It Taking So Long To Secure Internet Routing? · · Score: 1

    'Nuff said. Can't get shit done with his constant bullshit spouting.

  6. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    "Automobile magazines take pictures of cars from as far away as practical, so that the part of the car closer to the camera doesn't look substantially larger than the part of the car further from the lens."

    Funny, most car magazines I have use forced perspective to make that front end look a lot bigger. That's everything from Auto Trader to Motorsports Magazine.

  7. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    Yea. You're trying to argue with someone that deals with optics for a living (specifically, LED lighting and concentrating lenses.)

    You can bring your insults around all you want. You're an amateur in the face of a global professional. This is why I've been on the BBC for making plants grow WITHOUT LIGHT AT ALL. I know light better than most anybody here on this site.

  8. Re:No you don't. Saw your post history on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    No, he didn't show shit. He posted nonsense without any backing links. He deliberately went off-topic to keep talking.

    He's not going to be talking for much longer. People he's pissed off have his info, I have it now.

    Do I dox or do I take care of business myself?

  9. Re:Welcome to the world of "YOU FAIL", loser on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    You annihilated nobody.

    By the way, I know your address. Expect a few 'well-being' check ups, if not a visit from myself, personally, with the white coats in tow.

    So 'secure' in your HOSTS that you forget that your personal info, which can do a lot more damage, is already out on the net thanks to people you've pissed off.

  10. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    Zoom and telephoto are one and the same, just one is adjustable. Who's the one that needs to do their homework?

    Oh, and go to Edmund Optics so you can get kits to MAKE YOUR OWN. You can get a 10mm-1000mm focal length kit for around $300.

    Back to school for you. I've been at this for 17 years, since high school photography elective.

  11. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    Hi, welcome to the world of 10mm-1000mm focal length telephoto lenses. You know, the ones so large you need to have an additional bipod minimum to support the lens while the tripod holds the camera. *shakes head* Seriously? How the hell do you think amateur astronomers get decent pictures of Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope? Lenses with a HUGE adjustable focal length, that are almost the size of the telescope itself. Might as well be a telescope at that point. Nice large aperture, too. AND THEN for shits and giggles you can throw a 5x Vivitar telezoom lens between that lens and the camera (assuming you have lenses using the same mount style.)

    You must be confused with the DSLR world, thinking typical DSLR lenses. Plenty of HUGE lenses from back in the 60s even that have adapters to work with cameras of today.

  12. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    Hey, look, someone else that OBVIOUSLY knows what they're talking about, opposed to the dozen or so other idiots on here that can't be bothered to DO THE RESEARCH THEMSELVES and come to the exact same conclusion.

    Betting 10:1 Kyosuke, Graphius, etc are Apple fans talking absolute nonsense Especially graphius, who has never heard of anything with a possible 30X optical.

  13. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    "Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to hide something using perspective from across a room."

    You wouldn't for large objects, no. You would for small objects, as at smaller sizes and greater distances detail drops. It's like you failed some of that basic geometry, yourself. Do you even raster render or 3D model?

  14. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    You very obviously have zero respect for the scientific process, which includes testing every angle, variable, or possibility.

    So no, you're the one doing things wrong. Meanwhile, I've run through every available option and come to the conclusion that this is indeed photographic manipulation.

    What've you done, again?

  15. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    " I am not aware of a zoom lens with a range greater than 16x"

    >never heard of mount adapters to use manual lenses from much older 35mm SLR cameras

    "He spent all that money on photography gear and still doesn't understand perspective..."

    I understand perspective just fine, which is why I've always been the photographer and graphic designer for the websites I've run or managed. I also understand parallax just fine. And I also understand that up close or far away, the bump still shows up, unless you're BLIND. Funnily enough, I have macular degeneration in my natural cameras, and I can still see the bump, either up-close to my face, or far away, same flat edge-on viewing angle.

    And that's WITHOUT my glasses.

  16. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    "Mine" being my fiance's (he has the iPhone, I have a ZTE Score.)

    Still in my hands.

  17. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    I know very well what I'm doing. I think you're missing some inherent and unimplied context. Given there's a hand in the picture, the FOV and assumable distance pretty much makes it impossible to hide the bump. Given the lack of detail, one would have likely taken the picture from further away to reduce the pixel detail levels, as you stated, and then likely just used a line tool to wipe a clean horizontal edge. That's assuming this is an actual photograph. It really looks more like a CG rendering given it's doing pixel-perfect horizontal lines, hard-clipped. Either CG or photoshopped.

  18. Re:and the line was? on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 0

    You mean besides the fact the NSA practically has a camera up our asses anyways? :D

  19. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    "It's not clear why you were playing around with taking pictures from across the room"

    Because every possible distance gets tested when dealing with an edge-on view at a fixed FOV to determine the viability of hiding features. Smaller things further away are easier to hide than close-up.

  20. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    And with the obvious FOV on those images, it's obvious you couldn't get close enough to hide it without pretty much having the edge directly against the camera lens. You'd have better luck trying fro further away to minimize its detail.

  21. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Along with a few other mathematical things yes; but as it stands, unless they were taking those pictures from dozens of meters away, parallax isn't going to hide that from a dead-level perspective. I'm trying right now with my 26x optical zoom DSLR across the apartment, I can't get that tiny bump to stay hidden without showing more of the front of the phone.

  22. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Parallax isn't going to hide something like that on a device of that size. I'm holding mine exactly like that right now. I sure as hell see the camera bump, even being way on the other side of the phone from my vantage point.

    Plus, take the images and invert the colors. You can clearly see editing work. Basic Photoshop detection 101. Even more fun when you have a shitty TFT screen that makes every glaring error even more obvious.

  23. Re:How stupid do you feel NOW, Khyber? on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Raised cosine filters are not harmonic filters.

    LC filters are harmonic filters.

    Go home and come back when you can design radar guidance systems. Maybe then you'll have half a clue just how dead wrong you have always been.

    Well, the fact you use Bing already shows just how wrong you are.

  24. Re:No Khyber: On the SAME initial service on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    "(I used to install these "back in the day" long ago stupid)."

    No you didn't, because we didn't use harmonic filters 'back then.' We used a cosine shaping filter 'back then' on analog cable modems. Ya, I used to work for Stream as a Time Warner technician, you nitwit.

    Still wrong, as always!

  25. Re:Khyber, after our debate on hosts? on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    Uh, yea. Charter.

    Magic trick? Get different services that require different boxes (cablecard/net, phone/net, super-speed net.) Then swap out boxes with your own (excepting phone/net modems.) Then cancel in a specific order, leaving only the internet up. All boxes have internet access. Dual 100mbit and a 60 mbit line, for the price of 60 mbit plus phone.

    You're so useless it's funny. What're you gonna do, threaten to sue me for libel when your sorry ass has no leg to stand on being proven time and time again that your outdated shit is exactly that, outdated and useless?