Off topic: I can't read the article, or any wired.com article, because after about 5 or 10 seconds, the screen gets taken over by a plea to disable my ad blocker or to pay $50/year to get ad-free wired.

That is fine, but I don't have any ad blocker of any kind. Javascript is enabled. The only thing is that I don't have java installed on my machine. It is hard to believe that their ad mechanism is relying on java.