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Comment Re:You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone (Score 1) 81

If someone smashes a window and burglarizes your home is it your fault because you didn't put bars over your windows?

Let's suppose you ask me to store your bike in my house, for a small amount of money, because I say that your bike will be safer than in your own.

Let's suppose a burglar smashes my window and steals your bike, as you say.

Should I be held accountable, refund you your money, pay you for the stolen bike, possibly a bit more because the bike was special or whatever? Or should I just say "Shit happens, get over it. Blame the burglar"?

Do you see the problem now, fscking troll?

Submission + - What Can I Do To "Unblock" Email From My Server, Hosted On Comcast? 2

Submitted by hawkbug
hawkbug writes: For the past 15 years, I have hosted my own email server at home and it's been pretty painless. I had always used a local Denver ISP on a single static IP. Approximately 2 years ago, I switched to a faster connection, which now is hosted on Comcast. They provide me 5 static IPs and much faster speeds. It's a business connection with no ports blocked, etc. It has been mostly fine these last 2 years, with the occasional outage due to typical Comcast issues. About 2 weeks ago, I came across a serious issue. The following email services started rejecting all email from my server:

Hotmail
Yahoo
Gmail

I checked, and my IP is not on any real time blacklists for spammers, and I don't have any security issues. My mail server is not set as an open relay, and I use SPF records and pass all SPF tests. It appears that all 3 of those major email services started rejecting email from me based on a single condition: Comcast. I can understand the desire to limit spam — but here is the big problem: I have no way to combat this. With Gmail, I can instruct users to flag my emails as "not spam" because the emails actually go through, but simply end up in the spam folder. Yahoo and Hotmail on the other hand, just flat out reject the traffic at lower level. They send rejection notices back to my server that contain "tips" on how to make sure I'm not an open relay, causing spam, etc. Since I am NOT doing any of those things, I would expect some sort of option to have my IP white listed or verified. However, I can not find a single option to do so. The part that bugs me is that this happened 2 weeks ago with multiple major email services. Obviously, they are getting anti-spam policies from a central location of some kind. I don't know where. If I did, I could possibly go after the source and try to get my IP white listed. When I ask my other tech friends what they would do, they simply suggest changing ISPs. Nobody likes Comcast, but I don't have a choice here. I'm 2 years into a 3 year contract. So, moving is not an option.

Is there anything I can do to remedy this situation?

Submission + - After Silk Road 2.0, rival Dark Net markets explode to biggest size ever (dailydot.com)

Submitted by apexcp
apexcp writes: A week ago, Silk Road 2.0 was theatrically shut down by a global cadre of law enforcement. This week, the dark net is realigning.

In the wake of the latest police action against online bazaars, the anonymous black market known as Evolution is now the biggest Dark Net market of all time. Today, Evolution features 20,221 products for sale, a 28.8 percent increase from just one month ago and an enormous 300 percent increase over the past six months.

Submission + - Groupon infringes GNOME trademark, project seeks donations for legal battle 1

Submitted by Drinking Bleach
Drinking Bleach writes: Groupon has released a tablet-based point of sale system called Gnome, despite the well-known desktop environment's existence and trademark status. This is also not without Groupon's internal ignorance of the GNOME project; they were contacted about the infringement and flatly refused to change the name of their own product, in addition to filing many new patent applications for theirs.

The GNOME project is seeking donations to help them in a legal battle against these trademark applications, and to get Groupon to stop using their name. They are seeking at least $80,000 to challenge a first set of ten trademark applications from Groupon, out of 28 applications that have been filed.

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