The Ultimate Wireless Connection
I recently saw a sign in front of a church stating that god was the ultimate wireless connection. Except, it’s not the ultimate wireless connection.
Think about it this way. Your prayer is a UDP transmission. You have now way to verify that its been received. You go on “faith” that the daemon process on the other end is running, listening, etc.
Even if the daemon process is running, it’s sending a UDP packet back to you. The “server” has no way of letting you know that a response is coming; nor can you even expect one (as you don’t know if your packet got there).
Then, there’s the problem of latency. Even if you could guarantee your message arriving (TCP packets and all), there’s no telling how long it will take to receive a response. This causes timeouts, as you’re now stuck waiting for God‘s “response”.
Lastly, your prayer is sent with “one way encryption“. I’m calling it that because since no one else ever hears it, it’s an encrypted message. Now, if you pray via your pastor/church leader/etc, your encryption is toast. Everyone can hear it.
The ultimate wireless connection would use TCP packets (to guarantee delivery), have low latency (response within a decent amount of time), and be encrypted (top secret kind of stuff).
I’m not particularly a believer in God. I think though, that if you’re going to try to shove a message down the throats of others, you should consider that message a bit first. It might not be in your best interest to compare something like that.
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