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Ideas are sometimes just a piece of crap.

This is my new understanding of that word though a lot of people will just bluff on it. Sometime ago, my boss told me to enforce tighter security on our access point to prevent bastards going in our internal network (by setting up a firewall to would only allow internet access and block the rest) because we don’t have any idea if someone near our office has a Cray XT5 Jaguar running dictionary attack  on us (hey, we’re not doing nuclear research nor are we nuclear physicist here!) . At first I thought that WPA2/AES encryption was so difficult to compromise that this security hardening is not needed until I stumbled into this site and so this is where I found the title of the blog.

Until now I was still thinking (with a little conscience) on why our lone software tester suddenly resigned two weeks ago. I hope he didn’t take our “drinking spree  debate”  personal .Anyways,  we were talking and exchanging ideas on how the project should be started, its  infrastructure and target. For secrecy reasons I won’t make it public right now and besides it was my original idea.  We spent a lot of time and a lot of beers that night while talking about it until I figured that something was not convincing for me- that’s where the debate started.  After that night (or day for me because it took some of us until the next morning) I was thinking a lot about the word Idea, and on why and how these things got success and failures. For me it is because:

• Almost all people wants to get rich by any means as much as possible for just a quick and little effort (Lottery?, or the fastest way here in the Philippines- Enter Politics).
• Some people (like myself) thinks that there’s a possibility that some people thought of that idea already- before or after you thought of it. (confused? me also but I know they either a Chinese or  Indian). And for that its a matter of time and marketing.
• For people exposed in IT and the Internet, you can be successful by thinking about something stupid but useful enough for communities to embrace it. 2 of the most popular sites was kind of this but you know what? I embraced them recently and its fun (besides I know that my personal info was included already in their database and for the purpose of their National/HL Security) !
• Besides porn, most of the interesting things about Internet(and people prefer) is those FREE ones and some of it comes originally from PAID .
• You really wanted to be famous?  go get your hard-worked  idea and make it Opensource. People love it!
• You really wanted to be rich? then make it Commercial. If you really don’t care about people.
• Though Ideas are precious and the fundamental ones, it is still useless until you’ve started working from it. Einstein did that also.
• Yeah what the hell….  ideas are for sale too. You can become rich as long as you’re a former Theoretical Physicist (sarcasm).

All I am saying was that sometimes things are easier to think but harder to do.

NO! that was not what I mean(*meant) (as opposed on the other term used on(*in) the dark industry).

For developers/programmers this practice should be well much understood and as for me,much better to use than the traditional “strVariableName” or “intVariableName”. Please read more about this in wiki

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Yesterday evening just minutes before the start of my daily routine work (of sleeping..just kidding!) I got a call from someone that I am waiting and praying for the past couple of days that maybe a start of my new better life and a career that Im dreaming of…

Goodluck to me.

PS: A million thanks to you Mr. Menno!