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The best evidence for cancer latency -- that's the interval between your exposure and whether you get the tumor -- from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and from kids who were treated in Israel for (UNINTELLIGIBLE) with x-rays of the head show latencies for solid tumors, like of the brain, minimum 20 years.— CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? - August 9, 2000
It's a small amount of data, so having a fat pipe isn't important, but you care desperately that the latency is as low as possible so that it gets there quickly in case your heart stops first.— GigaOM
For a typical Ethernet connection the latency is usually about 0. 3ms (milliseconds -- thousandths of a second).— Ryan Tomayko
For a typical modem link the latency is usually about 100ms, about 300 times worse than Ethernet.— Ryan Tomayko
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