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UK High Court judgment on whether the Theft Act applies to Runescape gold pieces

Posted by PhilRodgers on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:53AM
from the caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk dept.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/crim/2026/4

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Re:Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:08PM (#41370797)

This reminds me of the letter in the pond https://thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/2008/05/30/the-letter-in-the-...

Scanning IPv6 Reverse DNS

Posted by PhilRodgers on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:52AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/fanf/status/1514218162958520329

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Re:The case of the 500-mile email (2002) on Saturday November 13, 2021 @06:32PM (#29214115)

On a similar theme, I remember reading a story about a server that would crash mysteriously every couple of weeks. They eventually worked out that this happened whenever there was a new moon or a full moon, and the resulting high tide caused a battleship moored in a nearby harbour to rise just high enough that its powerful radar would interfere with the server.