The problem for the layman with this type of article is that the author can pick something that is unknown to us, dump a ton of speculation on the reader, and at the end you've got what, exactly? A big pile of technical speculation, that's all. Sort of a rehash of all the physics classes and texts that the author may have consumed. The ability to speculate on possible instrumentation problems does not correlate with the probability that the instrumentation in question is actually important.
Put another way, this article would be a great comment inside of a larger conversation about possible problems, but it's not so good as something that stands on its own. In the author's defense, perhaps it was written as part of a larger web conversation that he can then refer people to.
But it's not technical speculation - he pretty much says he knows nothing about these devices, then assumes they're not too dissimilar from a home PC. More just idle gossip.
The problem for the layman with this type of article is that the author can pick something that is unknown to us, dump a ton of speculation on the reader, and at the end you've got what, exactly? A big pile of technical speculation, that's all. Sort of a rehash of all the physics classes and texts that the author may have consumed. The ability to speculate on possible instrumentation problems does not correlate with the probability that the instrumentation in question is actually important.
Put another way, this article would be a great comment inside of a larger conversation about possible problems, but it's not so good as something that stands on its own. In the author's defense, perhaps it was written as part of a larger web conversation that he can then refer people to.