Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by Gibbon1 on Friday January 12, 2024 @01:32PM (#38971957)

> would see the screen freeze as the user was attempting to confirm receipt of cash. Each time the user pressed “enter” on the frozen screen, it would silently update the record

Consider the shittiest homegrown shopping portal probably doesn't do that and any commercial point of sale system absolutely won't do that either. The system has to be such a POS internally that no other vendor will take the liability for it.

Reminds me of the Therac-25 that killed people. This thing probably killed more people than that.

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Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by notso411 on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:02PM (#38973190)

This was custom software on custom hardware. Bit different from some web app with built in debounce.

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Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by rcxdude on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:41PM (#38976154)

So is basically any point of sale system. Realllllly not an excuse.

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Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by bloqs on Saturday January 13, 2024 @07:54AM (#38979531)

The underlying paradigms are the same and it is inexcusable

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