This sounds a lot like the "hubs" from Windows Phone.

And I guess that this concept misses the point commercially. Yes, these scopes/hubs could be nice from a user's perspective. But how about that of the developer? Think about Facebook, would they really prefer that messages and status updates appear in a stream of updates from other websites, rather than presenting them in a branded user interface where they can place advertisements? Of course not. So whereas Apple and Google make tons of money by facilitating selling apps, Ubuntu would rather need to indemnify the content providers for the loss of ad revenue and brand visibility.

And how about university VPN's? I've once been to China as a student, and we sometimes needed to log in to our university's VPN in order to access scientific journals from our library. (Btw. using Facebook through that VPN is nearly impossible, also at home.) Of course a student is not the center of the world, but there are surely also a lot of more important foreign scientists in China.

I would find it hard to believe that the Chinese government would want to crack down on that.

Once upon a time, I learnt that one should not make setuid-root sh scripts, exactly because the shell has so many unpredictable ways to make your script unsecure and because secure input validation inside shell scripts itself is nearly impossible. So why do we have the situation now, that internet services are calling bash scripts to run as root with data input from the internet without proper validation?

In other words: It's no wonder that bash is still 'vulnerable' after two patches, because it isn't supposed to be used like this. And the remaining problems are not a bug in bash, but wrong usage of bash.

Mozilla 1.7 even renders webpages much faster than Firefox!

The C't magazine benchmarked half a dozen webbrowsers, and found that IE was the fastest browser, then Mozilla and then Firefox.

No, I don't know where the other browsers went. I think Opera above Konqueror, and those both between Mozilla and Firefox, but I'm not really sure about that. Mozilla is faster than Firefox, though!