They might be misunderstanding how video overlay acceleration works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

From what I recall, modern graphics hardware has little or no support for video overlays. The fastest and easiest way to display video on modern systems is actually to feed it through the standard 3d-accelerated compositing stack, which means that it shows up in screenshots just like everything else. Some content providers don't like this because it provides a way to capture the video, so they insist on graphics hardware manufacturers providing some method of displaying video that blocks screen capture; if any modern graphics cards do support overlays it's almost entirely for DRM purposes rather than acceleration.

I'm not so sure of that. Try playing a video on Windows XP with a cloned display. In some cases, the video will play on one screen, but not the other.

Not to mention it shipped with Need For Speed preinstalled

This is referring to runtime environments like Flash and Silverlight, not browser extensions like Adblock.

The original MS blog article that somebody linked seems to say "no plugins", though. No Flash and no Silverlight is just a corollary of that. If they allow extensions, how would they prevent Flash?

Presumably the extension API would be quite limited.

What was it? The server isn't serving the Silverlight app any more.

Web Dashboard and Config info of the Parking Structure / Devices.

A reminder that MTGOX originally stood for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange". When a site designed for trading cards online turns into the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange you better believe there's not going to be an appropriate level of security underneath it.

A reminder that people who make sweeping generalizations about subcultures they like to make fun of aren't worth listening to.

(also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2697975)

It doesn't really seem like a dig at the MtG subculture, IMO. It's just natural that a trading card site probably would focus less on security than a financial institution. This has nothing to do with the people or the hobby involved, and more to do with the fact that pretty much nothing needs as much attention to safety as a bank/currency storage.

Hah, I didn't know that. I thought it stood for "Mount Gox", a play on "Fort Knox"...

It's a driver to provide filesystem access to PS2 memory cards, using the USB Memory Card Adaptor designed for the PS3.

There's another tool using this to make bootable memory cards for bypassing region checks.

As an ex-developer of a company who had servers co-located with them, I'm feeling mighty smug about using our own backup system instead of their in-house one.

As mentioned earlier, bandwidth in Australia is prohibitively expensive so the choice wasn't as simple as "use both".

Depends on your tolerance and method of usage, but I use it 2-3 times a week, using a vaporiser, and go through ~0.1 grams a session. Due to taxes where I live (Victoria, Australia) it's cheaper than alcohol.

If it's anything like SNES/Genesis/other console emulators, the only entropy source is player input. I can't imagine many arcade machines would have a true persistant clock, and even then you could just store the start time as part of the replay data to ensure you get the same output for rand(time()) each time.

That hurt to read.