Virus Hold Computer Files 'Hostage' for $200

dwayner79 sent in a story about a new virus making the rounds- this one is unique because it locks your files and then demands a $200 ransom to get them back. It seems to me that this might leave some sort of tracable money trail. They don't have much information on any particular transmission mechanism, they just talk about web pages giving it up.

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[slavemowgli]

I know that terms like "sie" and "hir" are probably less known on /. than in other groups where gender discrimination is considered a more important issue that must be tackled.

Actually, if you want to be gender-neutral, you should just use "they", "their" and so on. "Sie" (or "shi"), "hir" and so on are sometimes used as pronouns for intersexuals, so using them as gender-neutral pronouns just causes even more confusion - and unnecessary confusion, for that matter, since using "they" for that purpose is common and understood pretty much everwhere.