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Submission + - New Powers Coming For 007: Driving Over The Speed Limit (telegraph.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: The Telegraph reports, "Britain’s spies are to be given a “licence to speed” for the first time, under changes to motoring laws. While James Bond would no doubt have scorned such niceties, officers in MI5 and MI6 are currently required to obey the rules of the road, even when national security is under threat. Now Robert Goodwill, the transport minister, intends to add the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service to the group of agencies with permission to break the speed limit."

Comment Re:A car refurbishment industry (Score 1) 368

There is a huge car refurbishment industry. Most of the cars refurbished are more "exciting" than a Camry. Watch some of Jay Leno's videos to get an idea of refurbishing old cars (some before the turn of the last century...) The problem is that most common cars, like the Camry, are designed to be disposable.Think of them as toasters. Sure you can fix your old toaster, but it is probably cheaper, and definitely less hassle to go out and buy a new one...

Comment Re:A Long time? (Score 1) 192

They do still exist. I was setting up a win8 machine a while back and it kept blue screening. It seems that the manufacturer installed AV was fighting with Microsoft's security and would bring the whole machine down. I removed the AV and suggested only connecting to the internet for updates (system was a mission critical laptop running medical software)

Comment Re:Form factor? (Score 1) 414

In my case (and I would think many other photographers, videographers, graphic designers, etc) I often deal with files over 100 MB and occasionally deal with files approaching 1GB. Wifi would suck in these instances.

And since I work interactively with the files, I could not just upload them, let the servers work on them, and download the finished product. I admit that there are has been some advances in working with a virtual file, then just rendering the final file on output, but none of these are perfect yet.

Comment Re:Form factor? (Score 1) 414

Over 2GB of RAM is limited? 64GB of disk?

Yes it is. My desktop (which I am planning to upgrade soon) has 12 GB of RAM, and 4 TB of on board storage (another 6 TB of external storage not including removable backup disks)

I use my machine mainly for photography. I would really find it lacking if I were to get into video.

A phone that had anywhere near this performance would be power hungry, large, and heavy. Until we come up with a way to realistically use external RAM, a phone will not be able to compete with a real workstation...

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