* Posts by Jamie Jones

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FYI: There's now an AI app that generates convincing fake smut vids using celebs' faces

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Re: It's one way to get it watched

... or go for someone good looking instead?

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Re: Too much Daily Mail for my liking

Mate, you're the one obsessing about it. Chill, or maybe seek help?

An article about tech, on a tech site tangents off into child pornography *twice* and I'm obsessed for calling you out?

What help do you suggest I seek?

A very strange comment - I can only assume there is psychological projection going on.

Cheers

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Too much Daily Mail for my liking

The tech was bound to come eventually. There will come a time when video evidence will become useless (remember the doctored video of Arnie in "The running man")

We can all extrapolate the consequences without you having to mention child porn... twice!

While we're at it, the internet can be used to distribute child porn!

Cameras can take pictures of kiddies!

That recent article on 512GB flash? It forgot to mention how much child porn that would allow someone to store!

And the Meltdown/Spectre bugs? They could allow people to hack family kiddie photos!

(Writing this as someone personally responsible for the discovery, busting and jailing of a child porn pervert)

29 MEEELLION iPhone Xs flogged... only to be end-of-life'd by summer?

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What about my IT membership card? My mobile is a nokia symbian phone!

Long life battery, keyboard that works in the rain, and without you needing to look at it, and only a few seconds to power up.

I own loads of Android devices - I'm typing this on one now - but as a phone? no way!

You want wires with that? Burger King backs, er, net neutrality

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Re: Only 330 million?

Naah. A global effect will be minimal. This is all about how American consumer ISPs deal with consumer connections.

If the worst of the worst happened, and companies became less profitable, they'd still cater to their international audiences. Costs may rise globally, but companies with a strong global reach will keep going.

Hypothetically, if Trump 'banned' google, or any of the others with a global reach, they'd not close down, they'd shift their base to another country.

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Re: At ****ing last

You're holding it wrong.

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

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Re: Here's a thought - idleness can mean speed increases!

We tried that already IIRC. See Pentium 4 and NetBurst.

Ahhhh. OK. Thanks. Now you mention it, I vaguely recall some people complaining that the P4 was less complicated than the P3, and thus was less powerful when running at the same speed - the idea being it would allow them to crank up the speed as it ran cooler. I didn't realise that predictive branching was one of the things they sacrificed.

From what I gather, they couldn't easily achieve the increased speeds needed to surpass the P3's power.

Cheers, J

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Here's a thought - idleness can mean speed increases!

All this speculative/predictive stuff is done so that the CPU doesn't waste time idling...

At the same time, we are rather limited in CPU speeds due to the temperatures reached when the chips are working.

Without any speculative stuff, and using the philosophy that it's OK for a "busy" CPU to be idle, how much could the speed be ramped up due to the otherwise cooler core?

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Re: It would seem that code will need to be tighter

Instead of bloatware and throw big tin at it, how about actually learning how to write good code?

But we've been saying that ever since MS brought us the "Too slow? buy a new machine. Uses too much memory? Buy more!" mantra in the mid 90's.

And nothing ever happened, until 'almost-smart' phones became available, and suddenly everyone was concerned with lean, efficient programming. Then phones became more powerful, and once again, that philosophy died.

Same will happen this time around. Lowest-common-denominator programmers and techniques will still be employed - "You just need to but a more expensive machine! More cores, more Mhz!"

Half a terabyte in your smartmobe? Yup. That's possible now

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They are Chinese, but they advertise heavily on youtube, and I presume they paid a packet to get the wish.com domain in the first place.

You're right of course that any legal claim would be fruitless, but I wonder how much their reputation is worth? I may buy one just to find out!

EDIT: Oh sod it, I just have :-)

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Hence the "(!)" on my post subject!

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$249 ? Only six quid for a 512GB sdcard from wish (!)

https://www.wish.com/m/c/598a64f8c1f4e17244331357

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Re: Slang

People can politely ask something on here, and if their original premise is wrong, some reg users downvote them, even if they state it as a question like you did.

I can understand downvotes if someone stubbornly asserts something incorrect, but why this happens for posts like yours is a mystery. I think it may be some kind of elitest geekyness - how dare anyone ever be wrong about something!

EDIT: Sorry, incoherent, not slept since Saturday

TalkTalk starts offering punters choice to shift-shift to O2

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Re: The beginning of the end .....

Which am I?

OK, who had 'Montana' in the net neutrality state pool? Congratulations

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Re: They have no right to do that

Wrong. So-called NN regulations prevent ISPs from giving the best service to their customers because traffic from all other ISPs has to be give free reign on their network.

Like you, so many people get this the wrong way around. (Most do so intentionally)

What you need to realise is that from a conceptual point of view (i.e. avoiding technical pedantry on how services may literally send requested data) with a consumer ISP, the customer is pulling in data over the ISP. You and others are thinking of it as internet providers pushing data over the ISP.

Customers pay to pull data over the ISPs network. The amount that affects the ISP is related to how much the customer pulls. Therefore, it's fair that ISPs can have plans with various data caps if they want.

What is not fine is them somehow differentiating between the data. Bits are bits.

I'm sure the whole argument against net neutrality formed because companies got stupid, and offered larger monthly data caps (or uncapped usage) that they couldn't afford, but assumed the customer would never attempt to use up.

Then, along comes youtube and netflix, and people are using more data (out of their already paid for allowance) and the ISPs want to get netflix and youtube to pay for their screwup.

Obligatory analogy:

If my bus company offers free transport on a little-used bus route, and then one day some big shopping centre opens up along that route, making the route more popular, then it's up to the bus company to renegotiate how much it charges passengers whenever it's contractually able to. You and others seem to think the shopping centre should pay the bus company for the fact they are getting more passengers...

Meltdown/Spectre week three: World still knee-deep in something nasty

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Order, order!

Intel first said only Broadwell and Haswell CPUs had the problem, but later said its more recent Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Kaby Lake architectures are all misbehaving after patching.

Huh? SandyBridge and Ivy Bridge are older than Broadwell and Haswell

Smut site fingered as 'source' of a million US net neutrality comments

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Re: Dear oh dear, what is the Reg coming to?`

Jake pointed out one they made: "smut site fingered"

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Re: Ain't American Politics Great?!

Especially when the Demorats would rather shutdown the whole of Government

What planet are you on?

The democrats fucked up, yes, but they fucked up BECAUSE they gave in to trumps demands - THEY GAVE IN TO AVOID A SHUTDOWN, they should have stood firm oh their demands, the spineless wimps.

But even though they gave in, the republicans still couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery even with the democrats bringing the beer.

The republicans control the senate, congress, and have the current President. 3 for 3. Full House. Strike! Yet when the government shuts down, it's the democrats fault? You sure you don't want to blame the Greens, or maybe BRexit?

.UK overseer Nominet abandons its own charitable foundation – and why this matters

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Re: Who owns .uk?

I would say that "we" own .UK and the government manages it on our behalf.. Don't let the government assume personal ownership of a public resource!

But yeah, why can't we say "bye bye nominet" and give the tender to someone else. It shouldn't be Nominets property - let them play with the domain they bought.

Mage: I'll forever associate .gb with x.400/x500 .. arrrgh!

NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops

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Re: @Lee D : "in my mind"

A colleague and I eventually got FreeBSD in official use in parts of the company we worked for (large UK/worldwide IT company - I even got it into HMRC via a contract the company had at the time.

We initially met A LOT of resistance from management, mainly because it was free, and worse still "unprofessionally has 'free' in its name"

In fact, we probably wouldn't have got anywhere if it wasn't for the fact my colleague ignored them, replacing a decrepit old unix server with FreeBSD and only telling them after a few weeks when they said they were impressed with the speed and stability of the new system - not realising it was an abandoned Pentium desktop, whilst the new £10,000 server which was meant to run NT was never made stable by the windows team, and was just sitting in a corner running a screen saver.

This was back in the 90's though, and although it's better today, there is still a mindset of "more expensive is better" amongst non-technical management.

Indeed, the same philosophy is often used in marketing generally

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Re: Que?

"Why is it 'neoliberal' and not just 'liberal'? Do you think the Conservative party is 'liberal'?

Would this issue have been solved by 'neoconservative? Alt-Right? Who?"

Oops. Google it. Neoliberalism is NOT liberalism.

Basically, neoliberalism is Thatcherite conservatism.

Neoconservatism only really exists in America, and basically applies to the current bat-shit crazy republicans

Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI

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Re: Confirmation checkbox needed

WANTED: Team able to build me a fully stocked and working nuclear shelter in/under my garden. Must be able to have work completed in 4 minutes time.

Transport pundit Christian Wolmar on why the driverless car is on a 'road to nowhere'

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Re: And of course the moral issue...

Damn, there are some arseholes here.

I was raising a question about *who* should responsible for accidents .

My example was not meant as a detailed physics experiment or some sort of commentary on anyones driving ability.

Maybe I should have said "A car on the wrong side of the road, in your lane approaches you at 120mph." or something similarly preposterous, though of course, then some of you smart-arses would have still avoided the question and described how such a situation was implausible in the first place.

It's no wonder people who work in our industry are stereotyped as being socially-inept nerds.

Now go ahead: downvote and criticise my spelling/grammar.

HAND.

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Re: And of course the moral issue...

I have no idea until I'm in the situation.

However, as the decision won't be based on precise mathematical algorithms, I won't be blamed for whatever the outcome is, as long as I haven't been negligent.

This is why people who have been in accidents which they didn't cause have never been blamed for the eventual outcome.

I'm puzzled to why it seems you don't see the difference.

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And of course the moral issue...

... Your driverless car is driving down the motorway, currently in the middle lane, driving in it's stopping distance behind a lorry.

Suddenly, the lorries doors burst open, and loads of falling logs come rolling out (ala "Final Destination 2")

Your car realises it won't stop in time. It can take the impact, possibly risking your life. It could swerve to the right, hitting the motorcyclist alongside you - most likely saving you, and killing the motorcyclist, or it can swerve to the left, hitting the family car with 3 kids in the back. This may kill you all, yet you may all survive.

What should the car do? And more relevant, what will the car programmers want it to do? No doubt the people who designed it want to minimise legal costs and bad PR.

FBI says it can't unlock 8,000 encrypted devices, demands backdoors for America's 'public safety'

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Even if I could be 100% sure they'd never abuse that power, they can still fuck off. They don't own me; they have no right to have that ability unless there is proper evidence of criminal activity.

IBM melts down fixing Meltdown as processes and patches stutter

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Chill out, sit down, and just wait a sec. Bejeabus.

Blimey! Take some of your own advice dude!

We translated Intel's crap attempt to spin its way out of CPU security bug PR nightmare

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Re: "Isn't making it go mainstream before this date kind of a bad thing?"

I felt almost a sense of pride seeing The Register being quoted all over the place!

Here's hoping that Apple and the others finally realise ignoring you is not a good decision.

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Re: SecureString

There is always the chance that the kernel memory can be hacked or even just written out to the page file.

Pffft. What kinda system still uses swapping to a file? and unencrypted swapping too?!

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Re: Other CPU architectures affected by Spectre...

Geeze, at this rate I'll be dusting the cobwebs off the old ZX Spectrum...

Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

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yippee

Only a few months ago I bought a KabyLake - only my second intel purchase ever... ho hum

Astroboffins say our Solar System could have – wait, stop, what... the US govt found UFOs?

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Re: Nice article, Ms. Quatch!

I was going to write similar - I liked her writing style here.

To Puerto Ricans: A Register apology

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Re: Every day

"I think it's fair to look at the alternatives: while May may be somewhat of a gaffe prone incompetent politician with control freakery issues, she's not elected in a vacuum.

When your principal opponent goes on the record supporting Chavez, not 10 years ago, but considerably more recently after the actual misery caused by his policies have become amply apparent, then yes, in my book that does count in your favor."

I agree entirely. Unfortunately I wasn't clear in my original message. What I meant was that if I critiscise May, then someone who responds by critiscising Corbyn, as if to win an argument, then I don't think they are very bright.

The names in the example could be swapped around - I wasn't referring to the fact they have a critical view, but the fact they assumed that because I criticised something by a politician on one side, I must therefore be a total diehard supporter of the other side.

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Re: Every day

"Naturally a Democrat politician is exempt from such trickery, no matter how culpable."

Repeat after me: Just because someone critiscises the Republicans, it doesn't mean they don't critisice democrats

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

You and Bob are typical of the current right wing "snowflakes" (to use your stupid term where it most applies)

You seem to worship your side. They can do no wrong. You see any criticism of policy as a biased partisan attack.

And even if someone is directly critical of Trump or the party, you always assume it's a one sided attack from the left, and therefore your best response is a criticism of the democrats.

This behaviour - like the most obsessed sports fan is with his sports team - is quite fascinating, and almost unique to the right wing. Is it because of low intelligence or the constant bullshit from Fox?

As hard as it obviously seems, you must realise most outside your team don't think like that.

They will criticise bullshit wherever they see it, and most don't align strictly to a "team".

If I critiscise Theresa May, I expect either agreement or disagreement. If anyone replied "Yeah, but Corbin did xxx" my thoughts would be "when did I ever mention Corbyn? This person is simple"

I'm not a labour supporter either, although they are better than this current government, so if someone countered an opinion on May with an attack on Corbyn, they are probably not all that bright.

'Please store the internet on this floppy disk'

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Re: I'm not sure what's worse

"enhance button" It's Christmas! Let's enhance.

https://youtu.be/LhF_56SxrGk

If it wasn't for that pesky reflection, I woulda gotta away with it...

You forgot to zoomify

Android trojan has miner so aggressive it can bork your battery

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com.adups.fota.sysoper

"com.adups.fota.sysoper" - we already know about that one. Even your original article you link to mentions it!

Windows Store nixed Google Chrome 'app' hours after it went live

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Re: MUST use engines provided by Windows

Dammnit Bob. By the time I managed to filter out the ranting, bad grammar, and RANDOM use OF capital LETTERS, you almost managed to make a good point.

But then you wrote "SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP" and your Fox-and-Friends alarm went off.

Please explain what it worse about the (rare) Socialist dictatorships, compared to the much more common religious or capitalist-anarchic dictatorships?

Quoting Alex Wong:

"There's nothing inherent about communism or socialism that leads to being a dictatorship. There are democracies that are communist like Nepal, there are oligarchies like China and you have social democracies like Sweden, or flawed democracies like Venezuela. In comparison, look at capitalist countries. You have a brutal monarchy in Saudi Arabia that leads the world in human rights abuses, failed states like Afghanistan or Somalia, flawed democracies like Italy or one party states like Singapore, South Korea and Japan."

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Re: Congrats!

"You are the first on this story about Microsoft Windows to take the time to inform everyone that you use Linux."

I haven't read all the comments yet, but no doubt there's also some sanctimonius post from someone who uses ad-blocker.

'Suspicious' BGP event routed big traffic sites through Russia

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Re: How many misroutings went through the USA or UK?

I assume he means a 'missing' hop, when there is a gap in the TTLs of the results you receive. The routers that don't respond then generally is displayed in the traceroute, as a 'hop', using just 3 stars - one for each icmp timeout.

Reminder: Vast majority of serfs toiling away as Mechanical Turks for megabucks Amazon earn less than min wage

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I don't undefstand....

Out of curiousity, I had a look at their site, and it's full of offers of 'jobs' that will take about 2 hours, for 1c pay.

One even 'offered' 0c

What am I missing?

Netflix silent about ridicule as it discusses punters' viewing habits

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Re: Amazon affiliate links

Really?! Gimbal, gimlet, gibbon, give, gild, gift (one letter more than gif) and of course git. It doesn't seem like there is much of a general rule there.

As I said, there are exceptions.

When I wrote "the general rule" I didn't mean "my general rule" or "what bob down the pub says." - I even linked to an article by an expert who mentioned it.

Look it up in any English book, it is the defined general rule for words beginning "gi" . I suggest doing research before posting - it would save you from looking silly!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=soft+or+hard+g+general+rule

If gif is "jif" then what am I supposed to put on my pancakes,Gamie Gones?

The rule is abour an 'i' following a 'g' is generally soft. It has nothing to do with how a 'j' is pronounced.

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Re: Amazon affiliate links

My beef has nothing to do with a soft or hard 'g' -- I'm equally good with either. My problem is that he pronounces it with a long 'i'. He's the only one I've ever heard do that, and it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Oh.. .I see.. .Really? I haven't heard that, but in that case, I'm in full agreement with you! *shudder*

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Re: Amazon affiliate links

, combined with his painful insistence on pronouncing "gif" as "jife", was a bridge too far.

So, how do you pronounce "Giraffe", "Gibberish", "Gin", "Giant", "Ginger"... ?

A 'g' before an 'i' is a soft-g is the general rule in English (though of course there are exceptions)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/askaboutenglish/2009/06/090825_aae_g.shtml

The argument that it's "GGraphic, not jraffic" doesn't make sense either - many other acronyms don't fall into that scheme.

Even Steve Wilnite, the person who created and named GIF, correctly pronounces it with a soft 'g', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtKxsuGvko&t=0m45s, so what's your beef with Tom again? :-)

Trump to NASA: Fly me (or some other guys) to the Moon

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Re: Caveat

I was reading this today:

Reuters UK: World is losing the battle against climate change.

I couldn't help laughing at all these idiots, these so called scientists with their Phds, all getting it so badly wrong.

The savvy amongst us all know it's all a big hoax... Bob from the internet told us.

America's drone owner database is baaaack! Just in time for Xmas

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Re: If you want a laugh...

You don't absorb information very well, do you? The whole point of this exercise is that the new bill is NOT like the old one.

Who's the troll again?

You are.

Lying in the hope that people believe you without checking is a popular thing amongst you guys, isn;t it?

Trump and Fox have it down to a fine art.

But it won't wash here. We're not right wing sheep with no minds of our own.

You only have to google to find many sites saying the same thing, or heck, why not go straight to the horses mouth? https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/

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Re: Not disputing that a national drone database is a good ideia

Tell me, in a firefight which would you prefer to have, a drone or a gun? A gun of course, because guns project physical force and might keep you alive. IOW, guns are not like any other objects in our lives, so comparing them to those other objects (as you have) is being less than honest.

Strawman. The post you are replying to mentioned a database, not a ban.

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Re: If you want a laugh...

They wanted to just do it anyway, because the 2012 FAA law didn't actually give them the right to do what they did in 2015, viz, the drone registry. But it was the Age of Obama, when anything seemed possible...

A somewhat anal hobbyist lawyer (who happened to be completely correct) rightly got it struck down. And now Congress in their lazy way have finally brought out a version that DOES address the registration issue directly. And not a moment too soon!

Yes, they now brought out a version that Big John finds acceptable.... It's literally exactly the same bill, except that it's signed by Trump not Obama.

Seriously, John, you've had your fun. Now will you and Bob please stop trolling - it's not really nice to take the piss out of the right wing so accurately.

Archive of 1.4 billion credentials in clear text found in dark web archive

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At the last place I worked, an automated password cracker was used that did email users if their password had been cracked.

These were internal users, on the corporate network.

This lead to one support ticket that simply read: "How do you know my password is 6inches? Have you or your staff ever slept with me?"

True story!

FCC backtracks on helping with neutrality fraud investigation

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Re: Anyone else?

haha bob, i didn't think your parodies could get any more extreme!

stalling tactics? during obamas time,republicans had the fillibuster down to a fine art.

Tell me, if socialism is evil, how can you justify using opensource software? The model behind BSD, linux etc. is so far beyond socialism, if's virtually commie!

and as you think being social is evil, I unsociably suggest you go back to fox where you can hero worship those unamerican bastards who are trying to discredit mueller... you know, the republican appointed by bush.