Sometimes you have to keep on complaining. I had a similar problem that wasn't solved until they finally sent out a team of real technicians with a spectrum analyser. Even then, it took them several visits to locate the faulty equipment that was generating interference on the local cable distribution system.

No, the problem is the design of the network. The uplink and downlink use completely different paths. The uplink path has limited capacity.

Sorry, you are quite simply incorrect. Channel capacity is a function of bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio. See the Shannon-Hartley theorem.

I know what 5.56 mm is. Say hello to my little friend.

There are quite a few people who do not have a landline for voice or dialup. For poor people, there are often issues about old unpaid bills, credit checks, deposits, and the inability of the head of household to control expenditures made by other members of the household or visitors.

Just increase the voltage. That will keep them on their toes.

There's something called prosecutorial discretion. Around here, the district attorney is not interested in wasting his time on weak cases. He has a limited budget and staff. He also has an ethical obligation to not prosecute people that are innocent.

I remember reading some driver source code that included comments bitching about how some early IDE controller chips were incredibly buggy. What you are seeing could be the result of software workarounds, like disabling interrupts during transfers.

What about all of the radio stations that expect payola in return for playing a record? There were a bunch of articles written about the sleazy "independent record promotions" industry not that long ago.

Many of the pay-as-you-go phones that I see on store shelves are being sold for substantially less than the price of a replacement battery. No contract needed.

And in some things, as the sole authority in the military chain of command, especially during wartime, his word is law, his requests are orders, and if he wants to make an issue out of it, refusal to carry out his orders is a crime of treason, punishable by death.

Where did you get that idea? Refusal to obey an order, assuming it is lawful, is not treason, even if it is from the POTUS.

That isn't true. ATSC uses multiple layers of error-correcting codes. The channel error rate has to get quite bad before you start seeing uncorrectable errors. If you look at the plot of SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) vs. BER (bit-error rate), you'll see that the curve is steep. That's the "digital cliff" that some people talk about. Small increases in SNR result in large reductions in BER. Analog TV relies on the brute force approach, just like AM broadcast radio, to suppress noise. That doesn't mean that analog is better. In fact, it's the opposite.

Ref. 9/11, it wasn't just the cell towers, a huge number of high-speed data lines were cut. You can't have a working cellular system without the data lines that connect all the nodes in the network.

The network tells the phone which channels to use. The trick to increasing capacity in cellular networks is to reduce the transmitter power and cell size. This increases frequency reuse.

Two words. Passive termination. You don't need to leave the cable box on.