Now, I have to assume that anyone asking about “[is Print-on-demand service lulu.com] worth the time” already has at least 32pp of content they want to do something with, right? Because, if not, the question that’s really being asked is “Can you give me some excuse to make something?”– and really, fuck those people. Because if what you want to know is, if you get your thumb out of your backside and actually do something, is someone going to pay you for it? Well, you’re looking at the wrong career, kiddo. You don’t actually care about publishing so much as you wouldn’t mind a no-risk game that gets you a book and some money at the end of it. If, you know, someone can assure you there’s a book and some money at the end of it before you do anything.
That's very refreshing, especially when I relate it to my current situation ("I am going to go out on a limb, and write a security scanner and hope it's worth something at the end" as opposed to staying on the Well-Trodden Path).
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I just googled as a curiosity "security scanner" and sure enough there seems to be quite some things around like for example this one : http://nmap.org/
What is the purpose of your thing intended to be ?
With such a specific application one step at some point will be to identify what your target customers could be.
It's to protect your network and/or your machine telling you what's going on the net and/or is intended to find "strange things on a net" and warn you about this ?
Could not hackers use it to counter-act its own existence ;) ?
And yeah - the Bad Guys could use it before the Good Guys - that's why I don't intend to let it out of my sight :D