real world currency is also not 'backed' by anything else than what value people give it. So in that sense it is no different from in-game money - if someone is ready to give you something in exchange for x ammount of money, then money is worth exactly that.

Recognise The Frequencies ... ehh, who am I kidding, of course that was typo in the most important letter combionation in slashdot.

yep, this

That does sound quite awesome. Maybe I will even RTF!

Boinspraton centr, pls

Makes one to think on how would nation where almost every male has been deprived of full pleasure in life, would substitue that and if it would affect its foreign policy, military action, etc. I guess, that examining correlation between violence and jews, muslims and americans sharing this 'tradition' would be taking a step too far. Or maybe not?

Also, even if certain subset of our species had evolved to be more resistant to headshots, it would be quite hard to notice. And after noticing - to test.

So, question is - how many more calories will people burn due to walking?

If you put it that way, then i might need to agree with you, that stalking kills people. However, i still cant put my head round the idea, mainly becouse 1000 foot fall would kill with 100% certainty (if you jump with parachute, then it is not called a fall), while stalking does kill people with quite low probability. Thats why I do not agree with using word 'survivor' in context of stalking, but completely agree in context of 'assault' or '1000 foot fall'

he was shot, wasn't he? so he didn't survive people shooting at him. that is understandable. but what it has to do with stalking? If someone just stalks and doesn't do anything else, then it is 100% survivable.

well, then he becomes murderer or assaulter not stalker, and that is completely different thing

Stalking survivors? Er? Is it possible _not_ to survive stalking?

"mayor of Paris is elected by Parisians only" -> what a coincidence ...

mod parent up! hope that those hordes of Slashdot readers who still doesn't understand this point will read it!

10 years of data on the laptop - are they implying that said stolen laptop was 10 years old? And thief bothered, not only to steal it but also boot it up? Sweden is scary sometimes.