Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll.
Lieberman: what's a troll?
Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine.
Keith is also involved with cryonics at Alcor, and well known for performing "a rapid conversion to neuropreservation [that] was done using a high-speed electric chain saw".
>My somewhat eccentric friend Keith Henson once performed the grisly task of "converting whole body to neuro", which the article mentions: downgrading some of Alcor's full-body customers to head-only by removing their heads from their bodies with a chainsaw, or as Alcore's illustrated report delicately explained, "a rapid conversion to neuropreservation was done using a high-speed electric chain saw."
>[...] But then the Alcor Life Extension Foundation came to the rescue. It would take care of the frozen parents, essentially on a charity basis, but only on the condition that they could be “converted” first, which is to say, converted from whole-body to neuro, the latter being far less expensive than the former. “The same capsule that you put a whole body in,” Saul Kent once explained, “you can probably put twenty heads in.”
Not even Scientology's Secret Advanced Technology OT III Level Xenu Body Thetan and their high payed lawyers know where 127.0.0.1 is!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14954131
DonHopkins on Aug 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost
There was the time that Keith Henson tried to explain the local loopback address to Scientology lawyers during a deposition...
http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=6289
Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll.
Lieberman: what's a troll?
Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson
Keith is also involved with cryonics at Alcor, and well known for performing "a rapid conversion to neuropreservation [that] was done using a high-speed electric chain saw".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066097
>My somewhat eccentric friend Keith Henson once performed the grisly task of "converting whole body to neuro", which the article mentions: downgrading some of Alcor's full-body customers to head-only by removing their heads from their bodies with a chainsaw, or as Alcore's illustrated report delicately explained, "a rapid conversion to neuropreservation was done using a high-speed electric chain saw."
>[...] But then the Alcor Life Extension Foundation came to the rescue. It would take care of the frozen parents, essentially on a charity basis, but only on the condition that they could be “converted” first, which is to say, converted from whole-body to neuro, the latter being far less expensive than the former. “The same capsule that you put a whole body in,” Saul Kent once explained, “you can probably put twenty heads in.”
Chapter 3, pp 76, "Heads Will Roll", pp 93-94:
https://gwern.net/doc/transhumanism/1990-regis-greatmambochi...