Well said. Faith is not diminished by learning more truth, it is enhanced by it. The more intensely I've scrutinized my own faith, the stronger it has become. One of the things I love about the church I belong to (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) is that we are encouraged to seek learning and understand others' points of view. The Internet facilitates that.

It seems that there is a growing philosophy that science and education are incompatible with a belief in God. The prevalence of this idea (evidenced in many comments here) is widespread across the Internet (and the world generally), and influences to that effect persuade many to abandon both their religion and, in many cases, their belief in God. A worldwide culture emphasizing this artificial division, spread via the Internet and other means, could be at the heart of the phenomenon described in the article.

If you are running 64-bit linux already, you will get some performance advantage to running as many apps as possible in 64-bit mode. This is because your shared libraries can actually be shared. Otherwise you end up loading the same shared libraries twice (once for the 64-bit version and once for the 32-bit version). There's noticably longer startup time when you do that.