Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet? • Hacker News Board

Re: Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?

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Post by banana_giraffe » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

Taniwha wrote: post #30

I wrote this thread explaining why this stuff is nonsense https://twitter.com/MoonbaseOtago/status/1370922507146985478

There's a bigger problem at play here I think, and it's a variant of the CSI Effect.

It appears large swaths of people are getting knowledge of the sciences from popular entertainment. Of course they do impossible things all the time in fiction, but too many people seemingly can't distinguish the impossible things from the possible, so we end up with jurors that think "DNA" is the answer to every crime scene question, and people thinking "nanotech" can recreate magic.

I'm not sure how to fix this. The long term effects of devaluing knowledge scares me, though.

Re: Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?

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Post by anoncake » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 7:50 AM UTC

xallarap wrote: post #32

anoncake wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. And if you send ${Your bank balance} to 35hK24tcLEWcgZA4JxpöbkNkoAcJGqQP, I'll decrypt your memory on how to do that as well as all your other favourite memories.

It might help if you root your covid and disable the sort command before the vaccine can install decryption routines. Reencrypting a memory is hard, right?

As your criminal, I can assure you that this will keep you perfectly safe from me.

Re: Is it true? Can Covid-19 vaccines connect me to the internet?

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Post by joshka » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 6:20 PM UTC

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #42

jarym wrote: post #11

Well I guess we could have solved the rural Internet access problem at the same time as the pandemic but no. Big corporations and governments colluded to prevent that happening. Yes. Sarcasm.

[*tutting sounds*] This is just another example where ETSI and telecommunication standardization missed the boat!

Fiber to the hydrogel.