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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: runequester on October 25, 2010, 05:13:08 PM

Title: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: runequester on October 25, 2010, 05:13:08 PM
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/mozilla-pays-12-year-old-3000-for-finding-critical-firefox-bug-20101023/

pretty rad :)
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: jorkany on October 25, 2010, 05:29:40 PM
This is a good article. The boy found these bugs because he enjoys tinkering with computers - not so different from a lot of people on this forum when they were his age. I think this illustrates that the fun never went out of computing.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: Argo on October 25, 2010, 05:45:12 PM
AKA, Has no life...
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: runequester on October 25, 2010, 05:55:15 PM
Quote from: Argo;586966
AKA, Has no life...


Most 12 year olds spend more than 90 minutes a day playing the wii or wanking, and they aren't getting any money from that.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: illy5603 on October 25, 2010, 05:59:25 PM
Quote from: Argo;586966
AKA, Has no life...

Says the guy posting on an internet forum.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: Linde on October 25, 2010, 06:16:07 PM
Quote from: Argo;586966
AKA, Has no life...


Don't be a dick. You probably spend a lot more than 90 minutes a day on something less fruitful, like moderating this forum.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: ElPolloDiabl on October 25, 2010, 06:36:36 PM
Quote from: illy5603;586969
Says the guy posting on an internet forum.

You mean trolling. I don't see anything wrong with scouring forums. Amiga users/ex users are also bloody intelligent, compared to Wintel users etc.

I'm trying to get support for my SSD which is slow and all the guy did was give me a link to a clueless fanboi forum thread. btw if you were thinking about getting an SSD, don't. The technology is still too young.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: tone007 on October 25, 2010, 06:44:35 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;586976
btw if you were thinking about getting an SSD, don't. The technology is still too young.


I stuck a $90 32GB SSD into one of my C= netbooks and it flies.
Title: Re: 12 year old gets 3000 dollars for finding firefox bugs
Post by: illy5603 on October 25, 2010, 06:53:31 PM
Quote from: ElPolloDiabl;586976
You mean trolling. I don't see anything wrong with scouring forums. Amiga users/ex users are also bloody intelligent, compared to Wintel users etc.

No, I meant posting. I think people should spend their time however they  like but to call someone out when they are doing basically the same thing, spending time on a computer, it  is more than a little hypocritical.