This is an article on a mainstream newspaper's website. Despite what they might think of themselves, the reader base mainly consists of people who know rather little about how computers and the internet work.
This isn't helped by the current trend for their articles to be link bait or scraped off a real tech source, rather than anything approximating journalism.
The general level of reader commentary on newspaper websites is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.
As much as I despise The Herald Sun and News Ltd., they do the whole online community thing better and the site is better for it.