Viddy only allows you to shoot for 15 seconds, which is just about the cut-off point where posterity-making becoming perturbing.

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Second and more perturbing, the report shows how dubious were some of the assumptions used to justify pouring public money into the upgrade.

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Another, and perhaps more perturbing, part of the same bill also seeks to circumvent restrictions on obtaining private messages and information from social networking sites without a search warrant.

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Also perturbing, though long expected, was the recent announcement that the governor of the Reserve Bank, Chris Stals, would be replaced next year by a politician, Tito Mboweni, currently the labour minister.

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That's why it's slightly perturbing to hear The Verge's suggestion from "sources familiar with the matter" that the Lumia 920 will ship with a paltry 8-megapixel version of PureView, which doesn't sound like it could deliver the same noise reduction or lossless zoom or other powers.

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