Filming has begun on a 4 part drama about the Horizon scandal, that destroyed the lives of over 500 post office sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses. A star studded cast including Toby Jones and Julie Hesmondhalgh, will take us through the persecutions of the workers and how Alan Bates a sub-postmaster stood up to the Post Office […]
In 2000 the Post Office introduced a new accounting system ‘Horizon’ to manage all its branches. Over the next few years hundreds of sub-postmasters/postmistresses were prosecuted for theft, fraud and other charges as the system identified money was missing from the accounts. Many of these people went to prison, even a pregnant woman and others […]
In 2000 the Post Office introduced a new accounting system ‘Horizon’ to manage all its branches. Over the next few years hundreds of sub-postmasters/postmistresses were prosecuted for theft, fraud and other charges as the system identified money was missing from the accounts. Many of these people went to prison, even a pregnant woman and others […]
From the on-going Edward Snowden saga through the use of drones to the creation of three parent embryos society is currently immersed in difficult ethical issues. In this, the first of a series of articles on the ethical issues facing software developers in the industry today, we look at the area of software testing. This […]
Year 2000 Bug – PC Issues Explained Chris Myers wrote this document in 1997 to explain the issues, so that managers and staff could understand just the technical issues that might occur with the existing computer hardware. The motherboard of a PC has a clock in the CMOS called a real time clock (RTC). This […]
