The Star Trek transporters are clearly murder factories. However, a proper quantum state teleporter would not allow duplication, and it is possible that the consciousness would travel too. Then again, it might not, and there is no way to tell.

What good does it do me that there is a copy of me with my memories on a different planet? If my consciousness does not go to the copy (and how would it?), it is rather pointless as well as creepy.

This is not true. Packet loss of less than 1% is detectable by actual customers with typical VoIP phones and the Alaw (or ulaw) codecs. It would be very handy to handle links with 0.3% packet loss, but that requires switching to codecs with built-in PLC, and transcoding is expensive.

In several markets you can buy petrol which is supposed to reduce losses in the engine. It has the same octane rating as regular petrol.

Whether it actually works I do not know. I like that fuel is a commodity, I resent the recent attempts at changing that. I wonder if I will be able to go to charging stations with special long-running electrons in ten years...

You are driving a car with non-faked figures. Of course you can get close to the official figures.

Relearning does not help you with most modern cars. They cannot physically achieve the numbers listed.

I don't want your car ruining my air.

4500 minutes at 3G quality is on the order of 500MB. Surely upping your bandwidth cap by 500MB is insignificant when you pay for 4500 minutes.

Error correction does not introduce anything like 400ms latency. 20ms lets you conceal the loss of one packet perfectly. 40ms allows you to lose two in a row. No humans will be able to detect 40ms latency.

Modern wide-band codecs use on the order of 50kbps for really high quality voice. If you use 50kbps continuously, you have added 16GB to your data cap each month (or 32GB is you transfer full duplex). Useful perhaps, but your phone would be constantly busy and battery life would suck. What are you going to transfer at 6kBps per second anyway?

100 ms latency is perfectly fine for voice. VoIP from Europe to China with 400ms is surprisingly usable, most users do not notice the walkie-talkie effect. Anyway, it is trivial to do error correction for VoIP with far less than 100ms latency. The easiest solution is to include a digest of the previous packet in the following packet -- if the previous packet arrives later than the following packet or not at all, use the lower-quality data in the following packet. Spread the information across multiple packets and you will be able to handle multiple packet drops of course.

I wish Asterisk would come with a simple-stupid PLC codec mode where it simply appended the previous packet contents in their entirety to the following packet. It would double bandwidth, but packets-per-second would be unchanged, and 128kbps is nothing on most modern lines. The added 20ms latency would be unnoticeable.

Voice traffic is not worth measuring. It just does not take up bandwidth at all.

Fair enough. I have nothing further to add to this discussion then.

I do not care for notifications. It is simply something that I do not want to worry about, and I will pay to not have to worry about it. ISPs are free to take my money or not, but it is there for the taking.

"Excess usage" only makes sense if there is a scarcity. Internet capacity is enormous. I know how to keep my connection free from abuse and I support holding people accountable for allowing harmful traffic.

Wasting water harms other people. That is an entirely different situation.

That is sophistry. There is no way for the packets to get into Comcast. They are dropping the traffic.

Just like Spain is doing to people from Gibraltar trying to enter Spain. Luckily people just get turned back in that case, rather than dropped.

No provider has 1Tbps of bandwidth to other providers. No one puts in upstream capacity of terabit for a few thousand customers. They are lucky to get 10Gbps, and they will never fill that. Yes, those customers can talk uncongested between each other, but Netflix is not served by the other customers.

And 1Pbps? That is 10,000 100Gbps ports. No, you cannot buy a petabit router. You can perhaps optically switch 10,000 colours, but you cannot actually look at the packets inside the colours.