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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[Anonymous Coward]

oh yeah! first post!

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

this would just reduce the number of dupes.

Man digs up corpse and cooks the body parts

[scovetta]

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Man digs up corpse and cooks the body parts

Beijing - A Chinese man has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for digging up a woman's corpse and eating her ears, nose and breasts, the government said on Monday.

Gui Jiachun was convicted of defiling a corpse by a court in Shitai County, in the eastern province of Anhui, reports said.

It said the offence was committed February 11 but didn't give the date of the ruling.

The court ruled that Gui should be imprisoned instead of beingt taken to hospital for mental illness because he was capable of controlling his actions.

Gui took an axe and a razor to the cemetery the same day that a fellow villager was buried after dying from an illness.

Re:a fix

[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.