Posts by Dis-Member

Oct 20th, 2005

The other day, Sarah noted that on her laundry detergent, it said “In case of accidental ingestion, give a glass of water or milk, and contact a poison control center.” She thought it odd that they would want you to drink milk. The purpose of drinking at all was clear… to dilute the detergent. Even very dangerous poisons can be handled by your body if they are diluted enough. But what was so special about milk? We had two theories: one involved the basicity of milk, and the other involved the lactose sugar in milk.

I looked into it further, and my lactose guess was right. See, milk contains a sugar called lactose that the human body is unable to digest by itself. Lactose is a disaccharide (sugar made up of two units) consisting of one glucose unit and one galactose unit connected by a beta linkage. Lactose is digested in mammals (like humans) only with the help of an enzyme called lactase which cleaves the lactose in half… allowing the individual sugars to be absorbed by the body. The problem here is that there is a limited amount of lactase produced, and as humans age, many stop producing it altogether, making it harder and harder to digest the lactose sugars in milk. Eventually, many adults become lactose intolerant, meaning that they are unable to digest a significant amount of lactose. Interestingly, lactose intolerance varies widely by ethnicities. Those of African or Asian descent are almost always lactose intolerant. Europeans and some from India and the Middle-East retain lactase at a higher rate, likely due to a micro-evolutionary adaptation resulting from cultures in which lactose-containing foods are more common.

At any rate, even someone with the ability to digest lactose only has a limited amount of the lactase enzyme with which to process the sugar. Once all available enzymes are put to work breaking up lactose, additional incoming lactose molecules are put on a waiting list. While they’re waiting for a lactase spot to open up, your incredibly acidic gastric juices start doing a number on the milk that is just sitting in your stomach. The hydrochloric acid in your stomach turns the milk into hard-to-digest curds… sort of like what milk looks like when you leave it out for a few days. These curds end up coating your stomach and your intestines, and give you a case of indigestion. And if you’ve just swallowed a poison, indigestion is exactly what you want!

So there’s the answer… by drinking milk, you not only dilute the detergent (or other poison), you overwhelm the lactase enzymes, allowing your stomach’s hydrochloric acid to curdle the milk, which coats your stomach and intestines, slowing down the rate with which your body absorbs the poison.

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Is there any good (im serious) in this religion JW

by dugout in

jw
friends

i know this has been talked about in the past but im new here..

Dis-Member

"someDUDEinAsmallCubicalSomewhereOverTheRAINBOX"

That's got to be the longest name in the forum. Was it really necessary?

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using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i've noticed about half my half are using these.

of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.

are the society going to find a way to police this?

Dis-Member

This particular Congo has a well qualified Techie with MS certifications.

Yes sorry I was being a little cheeky there..

I doubt though the hall is going to pay to install the required hardware and possible software to monitor and log the data exchange and transfer of every device that's connected to it's network.

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Will the JW.Org Site make a difference ?

by Phizzy in

it will obviously make a difference to how jw's obtain their literatrash, they will have to download and print it all themselves before long.. it will make a small difference to the dtod work, they will now refer even genuine questions and interest etc to the site, not taking the opportunity to "witness" on the initial call at all.

this has been happening already to a degree.. the difference i am mainly interested in is the capture of new suckers in to the borg.. we will be able to see when we get 2014's figures, sometime next year, what the rate of increase was over the last ten years.. phizzy the prophet predicts that the rate of increase over the next ten years will not be significantly up.

probably down, but certainly, i feel, not so different from the last ten.. should i be around in ten years to do so, i will wish to ask jw's:.

Dis-Member

"Over one million unique visitors go to jw.org each day."

There is no way to ever verify this number. A person with 4 devices, a smart-phone, an IPAD, a laptop and a home computer could easily be counted 4 times.

A single person moving around town and using say 10 different public wifi networks on a single device in one day will be counted 10 times. If they have a smart-phone and an IPAD that's 20 times right there.

Those figures are complete fantasy.

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using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i've noticed about half my half are using these.

of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.

are the society going to find a way to police this?

Dis-Member

If they really wanted to then YES.

Tracking website traffic from your router allows you to see a complete breakdown of the sites that have been accessed through your network. Routers track traffic using router logs, which list the data packets that have entered and left the network through that router. This type of tracking can be a useful way of monitoring your Internet usage.

Router Logging

Logging capabilities are usually part of a router's firewall function. Firewalls provide a network security service that examines all network traffic as it enters or leaves a network. With logging enabled, the router takes a record of all firewall activity and stores it in a text or Comma Separated Values file. You can then use these router logs to work out which sites have been visited from your network by looking at the outbound packets that have passed through the firewall.

Disadvantages of Router Logs

One disadvantage to tracking Internet use through router logs is that the logs themselves often require a degree of skill to interpret. For example, it might not be immediately obvious which packets are outbound packets and which are inbound packets, and most logs only list IP addresses instead of human-friendly Universal Resource Locator links. In addition, checking raw router logs does not give you any indication of which user attempted to access a given site.

Log Analyzer Software

Log analysis software, such as WallWatcher and Link Logger, helps you to work around some of the disadvantages of using router logs. These programs take logs straight from your router and process them into a more readable format. In addition, most log analyzers are able to store usage details and compile statistics over a period of time. This can help you to identify whether a few particular sites are being regularly accessed through your network.

Your ability to monitor the sites accessed by your Wi-Fi clients depends on your networking hardware. The easiest way is to download a network monitoring software that uses Simple Network Messaging Protocol. SNMP, however, is not supported on most home routers. Even with SNMP, the information is not always detailed enough to identify specifically who is accessing which site. A more thorough option involves port monitoring. Business-class wireless access points often include a port monitor option to connect a wired PC directly to the access point through Ethernet and have all wireless information forwarded to you. You can then use a sniffer to identify which IP addresses are making Internet requests to which servers; however, sniffers can only evaluate non-encrypted data. If the user you’re monitoring is connecting through a VPN tunnel, for example, you’ll only be able to see the endpoint address of that tunnel. Alternatively, you can invest in hardware-based Web monitor, which is then wired in-line between the Wi-Fi router and the Internet modem. This approach may be too expensive for the average user, however.

I suspect though that the person who sets up the hall wifi will have the same qualifications as the person manning the microphones..

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using kindle/ tablet/ iPad in meetings how to police?

by purrpurr in

jw
friends

i've noticed about half my half are using these.

of course there's always the potential for people to be looking at things non jw on them.

are the society going to find a way to police this?

Dis-Member

oops..