It is no longer worthwhile for the average 12-year-old to make 20 bucks for cleaning someone's car. It is certainly pointless for prepimpled youths to make a little pocket money for, say, cleaning the house or, perhaps, washing their armpits.

Not when there's Mozilla ready to give them $3,000 for a little overdue diligence.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Alex Miller is one 12-year-old who knows exactly which side of his bread he wishes buttered. The moment he saw that the benevolent bosses of Firefox were offering 3,000 big ones in order to eradicate just one bug, Alex bored down into the Internet's ether.
It used to be that Mozilla offered only $500 to those who happened to find major security flaws in its digital innards. Two months ago, management deemed it wise to multiply this figure by 6. Perhaps the recession is, indeed, over.