Exactly - and isn't this the whole idea on how this is supposed to work?

I think you're probably the majority. When I decided to take the leap out of IT nearly 3 years ago now, I was on roughly the same wage as I first started in IT nearly 10 years earlier. Yes, it was a little better, but nowhere near what I would expect.

My positions were:
1) Desktop support / network admin - first ever IT job - ~$40k AUD
2) 3 months contracting - much more than $40k when averaged over the 3 months.
3) 3rd level network support for a telco - about 300,000 users or so - ~$48k AUD
4) VoIP design / rollout - ~$41kAUD
5) Network Operations - mid-size ISP covering AU/SG - ~$45k AUD
6) Call centre team leader - ~$41k AUD.

Then I left IT to go fly planes. Less stress. Less bullshit to deal with. More enjoyable. Go Figure.

Joke aside, my network printers don't support IPv6, my 802.11 access point doesn't support IPv6, my SIP phone doesn't support IPv6, my ADSL modem/router doesn't support IPv6.

Tell me again, how is this transition supposed to work if a good 50% of equipment doesn't support IPv6?

Even if all these devices actually did support IPv6, why would I want them on publicly accessible IP addresses? The truth is, IPv6 hasn't taken off because really there is no huge need for it. Private networks (and there is gobs of IP space for those) are the norm, and in 90% of cases are more than acceptable with a device doing NAT to the rest of the world.

There is nothing stopping people having both public and private IPs (like I have) for things that don't behave behind NAT. That is unless your ISP won't give you addresses....

I've never understood why its a World Series when it is only ever featuring American teams... On the same level as Miss Universe etc...

Interestingly, the only examples I can think of where things are grossly exaggerated have their roots in America. High School education fail?

In laymans terms, what does this actually mean?

From how many hundreds of miles away can we detect a sparrow fart? Or more slashdot related, how many miles away can someone detect my unencrypted wireless AP?

I agree. The C&C series are what made me love RTS type games. C&C, Red Alert etc and the classics of a game studio who just do it right. Sadly, that was killed by EA and nobody has really stepped up to fill the gap :(

The fun part is - that as a non-US citizen, I look at something like this and think "What the hell is the US Government wanting to know what people have on their computer as they visit the US?".

What happened to the whole idea of freedoms and liberty for all that every US history class tells you America was founded on?

The more I hear about this kind of thing happening, the less I want to visit the US and chance of me doing business with American businesses gets lower and lower.

It seems to this foreigner that the US government needs to be told to pull it's fucking head in and act like a government - not the Gestapo.

Actually, it's more like the Australian tax payers paying for research that financially benefits US companies like Dell, Intel etc etc etc. After all, they are the ones making the money on this, not the rest of the world.

You mean like this?

Wahhh fucking wahh. If you're thinking you're badly done by for having a limit of 250Gb, I suggest that you look at the plans for the rest of the world and compare. I pay $79.95AU (~$69US, ~46â) for ADSL2+ which gives me ~6Mbit of speed and a 40Gb quota per month.

Plans above 100Gb in the residential space don't really exist in Australia (and in many places of the world). The US broadband market is still waaay more relaxed than the rest of the world - stop whinging and enjoy what you have compared to others.