White House, dating apps team up to add VAX sticker on profiles

Fox Business ^ | May 21, 2020 | Ken Martin

[conservative98]

The largest dating apps in America are teaming up to encourage Americans to get vaccinated.

The move is to support President Biden's goal of getting 70% of adults at least one coronavirus vaccine shot by July 4.

These companies join organizations across the country that have stepped up by offering incentives and information to help Americans get vaccinated.

Getting vaccinated has been shown to help people in the romance department. Those vaccinated are getting 14% more matches than those who aren't, according to research from OKCupid.

Dating apps are announcing Friday that they will offer a variety of features such as:

• Badges showing vaccination status

• Access to free premium content like boosts, super likes, and super swipes for vaccinated people

• In-app promotions and links to vaccines.gov or the text code for users

• Filters so individuals can see if others have been vaccinated

Dating apps will launch various incentives over the next several weeks.

Tinder members will be able to add stickers to their profile, including "Getting Vaxed" or "Vaccines Save Lives." And vaccinated users will have access to free premium content.

[Enlightened1]

For about 6 months.

The next round is coming in the Fall and get use to it for the rest of your life. Yeah I know you thought it was only this one time. Nope they are talking about everyone getting 2 a year every year for now, and they want to increase it to 6 or 8 a year. Enjoy!

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fully-vaccinated-americans-may-need-covid-19-booster-shot-by-fall/

[Myrddin]

Hopefully the filters work both ways. Selecting or Excluding the vaxxed.

[Myrddin]

Thanks for the VAX history. I did a hardware/software replacement at PacBell in 1986. The COSMOS/MIZR systems lived on a set of over 200 PDP 11/70 boxes. Most ran "COSNIX" which was a predecessor to what became UNIX. The directory assistance software platform for Automatic Call Directors (ACDs) was MERT. The address space was small. Big jobs were executed in a series of steps with intermediate values stashed in an early RAM disk (MegaRAM).

I replaced all of those with UNISYS-7000 (CCI Power6/32 Tahoe) systems that had a hybrid BSD/SysV kernel. The product was rushed out and it took me a few months to help the supplier fix defects in the UNIX kernel and device drivers. I shared the fixes with Keith Muller at UCSD where the corrections were fed back to the BSD maintainers. Part of the fixes identified a bad DMA chip on the MPCC (Multi-Protocol Communications Controller) that caused problems that couldn't be "debugged" in the MPCC firmware. Keith provided some good insights my direction as well. Mutual assistance that was mutually beneficial.

[_Jim]

re: “Thanks for the VAX history. “

Wow, Thanks for the interesting story. We used the VAXes in lab and office (scheduling) settings at TI in the 80’s - 90’s.

In 2000 I was doing maintenance and feature support at DSC (Digital Switch corp) on the Japanese HP (Handi-phone) system (a pre-cursor to full-blown cell-cell handoff system) VMC (Voice Mail Center) as it was called ... it used a bank of SCO UNIX PCs outfitted with ISDN PRI cards ... my boss recalled a story where they had debugged a problem in SCO UNIX itself involving the inter-process message queue service in SCO!

The complete VMC used a fault-tolerant Sun SPARK database server, a pair of Sun Spark voice message servers (for redundancy) and the eight SCO UNIX boxes with the ISDN PRI cards and they talked to each other via CDDI (Copper (vs Fiber) Distributed Data Interface) ‘ring’ ... a fun environment to troubleshoot code issues in ...

[Scrambler Bob]

So now the Govt has a database of Vaxed people, with pictures and contact info.

Smooth.