Cable's limitations on upstream bandwidth are architectural and not caused by their normal asshole business practices.

Even the latest and greatest DOCSIS 3.0 hardware being rolled out to consumers is limited to bonding 4 upstream channels.
Cisco's literature says it's capable of 120 Mbits upload, but that seems a little optimistic, and I don't know where they pulled 30 Mbit/channel from.

In some markets, Comcast has pulled fiber to the home and offers 505/100 Mbit service, but the rest of their markets only have a maximum 150/20 Mbits option.

The reality is that the vast majority of home users don't require significant upload bandwidth and, other than playing numbers games in markets where they have direct competition, Comcast has no compelling reason to do anything about it.

I recall reading this article in 2012. It talks about ways that cable could upgrade its DOCSIS 3.0 setup to boost upload bandwidth, but concludes nothing will happen until DOCSIS 3.1 show up. That article was written 2 years ago and 3.1 infrastructure isn't expected to be widely rolled out until 2016/2017.

TLDR: Comcast doesn't care about your upload speeds.

From the personal blog of Ron Shevlin, Senior Analyst at a financial industry think tank
http://snarketing2dot0.com/2014/09/03/failed-currentc/

Even if it's not a true story, it's highly indicative of the relationship that many businesses have with the credit card network operators.

It's why many large retail chains have their own store credit card.
Those cards allow them to directly process in-store purchases and skip the middle man's fees.

No, nobody has figured that out yet.
The CDC says up to 1,050 people per week are coming into the USA from countries with active Ebola outbreaks.

Explain how you plan to run a rolling quarantine for 3,150 people?

MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express set a USA deadline of October 2015.
After that deadline passes, any merchant who hasn't switched over to a chip & pin/signature setup will be liable for credit card fraud that happens in their stores.

Naturally, no one actually expects 100% compliance by the deadline, so who knows how it will actually shake out.
Keywords: Liability Shift

Not necessarily.
Just because there's a clause in the contract doesn't mean it is legal and/or conscionable.

I'll say that it's nakedly anti-consumer and I hope a State's Attorney General or three will look into it and pressure AT&T to back off.

Try looking at it from a different angle.

I think it's pretty clear that high business profits are a forcing function for this transition, and I don't think it's something we really want to force. Ideally, it would be better to slow it down, at least in terms of the human cost, though the most obvious mechanisms for slowing it (better wages) may also improve the economy.

Chasing profits might be the goal of most businesses, but there's no compelling reason it should also be the goal of a Government for the people and by the people.

P.S. Minimum wages are both (1) low relative to decades of inflation and (2) historically low relative to worker productivity. You can look it up.

Within days it was widely reported in both US and Russian media that the aerosol used was Fentanyl or some related/derivative agent.

No, Russia has never said specifically what it was that they used, but I wouldn't expect any country to disclose the tools they use for anti-terror operations.

We already have technology that can handle potholes to some extent: Semi-active suspension management.
It has been slowly trickling down from high end and commercial automobiles.

There's two basic ways the systems work.
1. Magnetic shock fluid whose viscosity can be changed with a magnetic field
2. Actively adjusted shock valving

With the right accelerometers, both systems allow for detection of potholes (actually the detection of rapid drops) and can almost instantly increase the shock dampening to prevent your wheel from dropping deep into the pothole.

There's also active suspension management, which either involves actively generating hydraulic pressure for a piston or using a linear motor. These are far less common because of the extra weight and complexity required, but they can literally pull a wheel up and out of a pothole.

I think this point requires further explaining.
Why exactly do I need Gbit service to bring healthcare into my home?

Huh?

DOCSIS 3.0 does not have a maximum limit on the number of channels that can be bonded.
The initial hardware would only bond up to 8 channels (~304 Mbit/s), but 16 channel (608 Mbit/s) hardware is already being rolled out by Comcast in the form of rebadged Cisco DPC3939 Gateways.

2015/2016 we might see 24 channel (912 Mbit/s) and 32 channel (1.2 Gbit/s) hardware.
2016/2017 is most likely, in the form of DOCSIS 3.1 modems, which use completely different modulation, but will have 24/32 channel DOCSIS 3.0 baked into them so that the ISPs can seamlessly upgrade from DOCSIS 3.0 to 3.1.

Cable's game plan is to use DOCSIS 3.1 to put off pulling fiber to the home, which keeps their costs low and will allow them to offer (multi)gigabit speeds using a hybrid fiber/co-ax infrastructure.

Bundles: stay organized automatically
It's like Folders! With keyword filtering!
But we do it automatically for you!

Highlights: the important info at a glance
They're like Subject lines! But with more information!

Calendar and Alarm integration! In your e-mail!

Because we were already reading your e-mail, we used some Google Search magic to pre-fetch information you might want. Gmailâ(TM)s still there for you, but Inbox is something new. Itâ(TM)s a better way to get back to what matters, and we canâ(TM)t wait to share it with you.

/This sounds like really cool stuff, too bad I don't have an Android phone.

The problem cannot be solved within the leadership of Islam, because there is no monolithic Islam.

This is the equivalent of saying that the Roman Catholic Church should involve itself in the affairs of the Southern Baptist Convention, because they're both Christian. Actually, one of them is Protestant. And not only Protestant, but a separatist group from a separatist group. That's three schisms for anyone trying to keep track.

The Islamic sects which attract/breed extremists have leadership who support extremism.

Islam suffered a defining schism shortly after the death of Mohammed.
The Sunnis supported the choosing of Mohammed's father-in-law, Abu Bakr, as the first Caliph.
The Shia believed Mohammed chose his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as successor and have been pissed off ever since that he wasn't elected as the first Caliph.

Then these two groups spent the better part of a millennium fighting each other over who should be in charge, creating splinter factions the entire way.

There are more than a few Persian Gulf states who are widely known to tacitly or actively support the funding of extremists. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Kuwait, Iran, and Syria are the first ones that come to mind. Some of them publicly condemn terrorism, but everyone knows that they do almost nothing to stop their very rich citizens from funneling money into the hands of extremist groups.

There's much more to be said on the topic, but I'll close by pointing out that your comments belie either ignorance or a deep misunderstanding about Islam and the Middle East.

Only the insurance industry can force change without getting buried in lobbying and politics.

But even then, the insurance industry will still end up negotiating the industry standards with device manufacturers.

Please let me know when all the companies with "-ly" names are expected to die off.

Embedly, Nextly, Locately, Drizly, Intelligent.ly, Delightfully, Crowdly, Bitly, Attentive.ly, etc
I cannot wait to bid you goodbye.

/I also hold a special hatred for adf.ly and their link shortening interstitial ad-pages.

Several month old data?
Isn't that like... 90% of Windows operating files?

Most OS files are never overwritten until an update changes something.

In a Mailbox: A Shared Gun, Just for the Asking

If you search for "community gun" you can find some more articles, from different cities, all saying the same thing.