Metric. Date format. IPv6. 240v 50Hz. Not many left to go, Americans.

Well, why not let the sysadmins/network guys worry about the implications of IPv6? :)
Just get your apps v6 ready :)
Also, I suspect that a lot more people know that a "firewall" stops inbound connections than know that NAT does the same (assuming no port-forwarding-style NAT, etc).

And God no, please, NO MORE NAT. Definitely not in IPv6. We don't need it, and don't want it. It's a crock.

More chance of being ready when needed? A greater, longer understanding of it? Fun? I don't know - lots of reasons why.

Yep. I've been wondering when Slashdot would get up to date for years now.
Trouble is, Slashdot is unashamedly "American-centric" and it always seems to be the Americans who don't want to move from IPv4 (probably because they got such a good large chunk of the v4 space due to their involvement in it).
US: IPv6 good, metric good, you can keep your 110V/60Hz weirdness if you really have to.

Why? Why on earth? There are these things called firewalls, right....

Yep, cos it's kind of snuck up on you there, hasn't it. I mean, no-one ever heard of it until the start of this year.
People laughed when I said about a decade ago "get ahead of the curve"....

I can't wait to get back on the v6 net.
I'm waiting to get my sixxs account re-activated. I moved house, and then I registered again, so I now have a -RIPE handle and a -SIXXS handle.

Well, yes, I was typing without trying.
I suppose that \>\> might work, or sudo bash -c "echo 127.0.0.2 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com >> /etc/hosts"

There's always more than one way to skin a rabbit.

Affect.
Is it really that hard?

Download, er, I mean, buy a 70s or 80s BBC TV show called Threads. Bit cheesy in places, but it shows the aftermath of a nuclear war, and frankly, it's not pretty. No-one will look after you at all, if you can work, you can eat, if not, then you'll just die, pretty much.

Trust Aunty to make it all look so glamorous.

Doesn't everyone do this?

sudo echo 127.0.0.2 google-analytics.com www.google-analytics.com >> /etc/hosts

My rule is that if a script from an external site slows down my page loading long enough that I can see it saying "Waiting for ..." in the status bar, then that site gets added to my hosts file.

I'm 120 miles away from my powered off laptop, otherwise I'd post you the worst offenders here.

Derren Brown did a TV show based on this. It was called something like The System. Well worth watching.

A bender is also a long drinking session. "I went out on a bit of a bender last night, and smoked way too many fags."

Ironically, addons.mozilla.org is one of the sites that had a fake cert generated for it.

Sorry, I stopped listening after that.