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Appoint people who will make a real difference!
@UKHouseofLords
🔊We, call upon the PM and the Monarch to appoint Sir Alan Bates as a life peer in recognition of his campaign for justice. #PostOfficeInquiry #Horizon @UKChange
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Appoint people who will make a real difference!
@UKHouseofLords
🔊We, call upon the PM and the Monarch to appoint Sir Alan Bates as a life peer in recognition of his campaign for justice. #PostOfficeInquiry #Horizon @UKChange
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Beer KC in his closing statement to the #PostOfficeInquiry
"It is not a technical investigation into the failure of computer systems but an investigation into the harm done by people to other people"
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Beer KC in his closing statement to the #PostOfficeInquiry
"It is not a technical investigation into the failure of computer systems but an investigation into the harm done by people to other people"
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CW: Political Sketch
"How wonderful to be as incurious as Ed. Not to think – even for a nano-second – that there might be something wrong going on. That not every post office operator who was complaining of an injustice might be making it up. But not Brain-Dead Ed. He had his officials to tell him everything was tickety boo."
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CW: Political Sketch
"How wonderful to be as incurious as Ed. Not to think – even for a nano-second – that there might be something wrong going on. That not every post office operator who was complaining of an injustice might be making it up. But not Brain-Dead Ed. He had his officials to tell him everything was tickety boo."
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The Post Office Inquiry is now out of its depth in reconciling questions made to technical architects and the context implied in the answers.
Asked about known problems in Horizon it's quite reasonable to think that that refers to outstanding problems, or problems at a specific time or period.
The specific time or period was not part of the question.
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The understanding of scale and the kind of failures that arise seems very odd to me. There are different pressures but they cause similar performance problems.
If timeouts on a client are too severe then fixing a configuration will hide the problem but increasing the volume of data may well expose it again.
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Post Office expert IT witness Gareth Jenkins resigns BCS membership
The former Fujitsu chief architect for Horizon has resigned as a member of the BCS after he was told he could be investigated
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Post Office expert IT witness Gareth Jenkins resigns BCS membership
The former Fujitsu chief architect for Horizon has resigned as a member of the BCS after he was told he could be investigated
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George Thomson is so deep in the mind set that he has no opinion which could be considered sane.
He was bought and paid for by the Post Office and his thinking is much like a Stalinist stranded in the late 50's everything was good it was the fault of the wreckers.
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Another case of not understanding the term systemic. Systemic does not mean on every case or in every context. In specific contexts, particular types of transactions in the same stream would always cause issues. That is a systemic fault.
Horizon wasn't and isn't fit for purpose not just because of the quality of the code or its architecture but how it was operated both by the Post Office and Fujitsu/ICL.
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George Thompson and the body supposedly to support sub postmasters, the creature of the Post Office, blathers on about it nothing to do with them.
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The management decision to bear technical debt and continue to take the pain was and is a common one instead of redevelopment. What has to be asked is how the two alternatives are funded.
If new software development is capitalised it's expected to increase corporate value not just maintain it. That's often a trap.
Replacement is also a risk and technical debt may well become ruinous.
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I doubt that 'robust' was ever discussed by the drafters and the actual technical design documents would describe resilience and fail safes.
I've no idea why the present witness was called, senior executives at companies like ICL took very little notice of any technical details (admittedly part of the problem).
The Inquiry is in danger of getting into the weeds of contract terms without getting into how the two organisations related with each other.
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The ICL POCL contract might look like old fashioned waterfall strict specification, acceptance criteria and the buyer holds the responsibility but all of the Schedules were generalisations of generalisations.
What the Inquiry should look at are the processes for issues, escalation change process and documentation between ICL/Fujitsu and the PostOffice which will be in the Contract.
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It looks like Andrew Parsons, apart from significant grief from the SRA, will end up with a conspiracy charge to pervert the course of justice.
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#postofficeinquiry epitomises #torybritain, having to adjourn because Sir Wyn Williams is being "attacked by drips". The bloody ceiling is leaking onto his note book.
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CW: Opinion Piece
"Her inquiry appearance will, among other things, be an attempt to work out her fatal flaw: what is it about this seemingly mild-mannered, devout woman that caused her to preside over a reign of what I can only ever think of as total corporate psychopathy?"
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CW: Opinion Piece
"Her inquiry appearance will, among other things, be an attempt to work out her fatal flaw: what is it about this seemingly mild-mannered, devout woman that caused her to preside over a reign of what I can only ever think of as total corporate psychopathy?"
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"Counsel Jason Beer KC said: ‘We are not going to hear from her. She lives abroad and won’t co-operate.’"
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"Counsel Jason Beer KC said: ‘We are not going to hear from her. She lives abroad and won’t co-operate.’"
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Apparently one of the problems with the Post Office's Horizon system was that it was "dependent on physical data centres".
Where the f else would the computers be?
Ah. The cloud. Yes.
FFS.
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Apparently one of the problems with the Post Office's Horizon system was that it was "dependent on physical data centres".
Where the f else would the computers be?
Ah. The cloud. Yes.
FFS.
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In the context of programming errors, the former Chief Information Officer at Post Office Ltd says that they have never used the word "bug" and always referred to these errors as "faults and issues". I find that hard to believe - surely the term "bug" is industry standard. Am I right or am I wrong?
What do you say?
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In the context of programming errors, the former Chief Information Officer at Post Office Ltd says that they have never used the word "bug" and always referred to these errors as "faults and issues". I find that hard to believe - surely the term "bug" is industry standard. Am I right or am I wrong?
What do you say?
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Again, I have the Post Office Horizon Inquiry open in the corner of my screen.
The current witness (former Group Communications & Corporate Affairs Director at Post Office Ltd) is, in my humble opinion, a classic example of communications departments in large organisations being a nasty, horrible cess-pit of weasel words, fake empaths and self-serving narcissists.
Grrr.
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Again, I have the Post Office Horizon Inquiry open in the corner of my screen.
The current witness (former Group Communications & Corporate Affairs Director at Post Office Ltd) is, in my humble opinion, a classic example of communications departments in large organisations being a nasty, horrible cess-pit of weasel words, fake empaths and self-serving narcissists.
Grrr.
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Today we learnt at the #PostOfficeInquiry that Angela van der Bogred authorised a drip drip drip feed of money to the widow of Martin Griffiths, a man who took his own life because a faulty computer system - Horizon- indicated that he had stolen thousands and thousands of pounds.
She paid off the widow in this way because she did not want her to speak out and spoil the brand of the Post Office.
How fucking awful.