It’s a good one for sure.
nitpick: since it’s just him doing it (apparently), in what sense is his denial of service attack distributed?
Alan G. Humphreysays
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Because all prayers don’t work in the same way. Each prayer for help is answered by all the gods simultaneously, thus distributed among them all, and they interfere with each other causing failure. Distributed Deities obstructing Service attacks are what prayers are for. Keeps them busy so they don’t go fucking things up worse than us humans do. This guy is busy keeping himself from fucking things up…
sonofrojblakesays
Distributed at the target end, not the source? Good answer! 🙂
beholdersays
Ah, I see John SMBC is taking the theological position that prayer is proof-of-work, not proof-of-faith. And the difficulty for mining new answered prayers has gotten much harder over the past 3,000 years.
It’s a good one for sure.
nitpick: since it’s just him doing it (apparently), in what sense is his denial of service attack distributed?
@1
Because all prayers don’t work in the same way. Each prayer for help is answered by all the gods simultaneously, thus distributed among them all, and they interfere with each other causing failure. Distributed Deities obstructing Service attacks are what prayers are for. Keeps them busy so they don’t go fucking things up worse than us humans do. This guy is busy keeping himself from fucking things up…
Distributed at the target end, not the source? Good answer! 🙂
Ah, I see John SMBC is taking the theological position that prayer is proof-of-work, not proof-of-faith. And the difficulty for mining new answered prayers has gotten much harder over the past 3,000 years.