I for one welcome our robotic overlords!

Imagine the pressure on them. They had $200k of donations to show for and every privacy activist has been following them for months. I bet half those holes would've been patched if it weren't for all the pressure to release.

If all piracy was done away with, think of all the open source attention. No youth will shell out $200 for Photoshop.

Smokescreen. It replicates every feature of flash. From what I've seen, there isn't a smidgen of quality difference.

Little effort, high reward. Then he can grow into enjoying a huge engineering project. When I was 14, I scripted Java bots for Runescape and made phishing sites for it (poorly). I owe Runescape gold my programming skills. Lowly, but an awesome introduction into programming. Try to find something he could get cheap thrills from. Twitter program, perhaps ;)?

In this recession, even the Feds can't afford to buy Photoshop.

I bet they were losing concentration while taking the test since they couldn't smoke.

I can offer an anecdote here. Through some loopholes in homeschooling graduation requirements I got into my local community college at 16. Before long, I couldn't stand to be friends with most high schoolers. This whole high school mentality perpetuates itself (see: other countries).