I'm going to freely admit, this is a biased comment, which probably doesn't belong here, but I think it has to be said.
This isn't the first time that Ars Technica, an otherwise reasonable source of information, has published an utter crap article written by Peter Bright.
If Ars wants to maintain any shred of credibility (and a technically intelligent readership) in the future, they need to can this author, or label all of his articles as "op-ed", because that's the best that can be said of them. These articles contain no facts, no intelligent reasoning; just a spewing of one man's ill-formed opinions. Ars has already lost my paid subscription (and my ad revenue) due to other crap articles by this author, and I can't imagine them not losing more as a result of this article.
I'd love to think they would be better off, but I assume their analytics are telling them right now that cheap trolling increases ad impressions more than journalistic hard work.
This isn't the first time that Ars Technica, an otherwise reasonable source of information, has published an utter crap article written by Peter Bright.
If Ars wants to maintain any shred of credibility (and a technically intelligent readership) in the future, they need to can this author, or label all of his articles as "op-ed", because that's the best that can be said of them. These articles contain no facts, no intelligent reasoning; just a spewing of one man's ill-formed opinions. Ars has already lost my paid subscription (and my ad revenue) due to other crap articles by this author, and I can't imagine them not losing more as a result of this article.
Get rid of him, Ars. You'll be better off for it.