He argues that it is quite likely that all major banks will refuse to facilitate Bitcoin for fear or repercussions by the government. He has a point but seems to underestimate just how decentralized Bitcoin can be and how hard it can be to extinguish, as the woman at 53 minutes in argues.

Mine was hacked Saturday, also from China but a different IP.
I'm wondering how this happened, MtGox was always accessed using a secure computer and I had not logged in to the account for weeks. I've not taken any interest in any alt-coins or similar programs that might have held a trojan.

I see a large number of posts having to do with confusion or regret at the inability of their transactions to confirm due to a very small fee applied. Would it not be possible for a wallet to estimate the time needed to confirm a transaction of a given amount and fee from looking back at the waiting time for similar transactions over the past few weeks? Or is the volume just not there to make a reliable estimate?

It has been speculated that bitcoins will eventually be referred to using the lower denomination units, but it just hasn't come to that yet. Adopting a new base unit would be the responsibility of the wallet developers and the community as a whole.
I would also point out that the monetary unit should evoke more of a sense of its value than the quantity, no one really proclaims that they only received a "mere 0.5" of a gold bar. But I personally dont know of anyone that keeps track of their wealth in gold bars so again were back to moving to a lower denominated unit for convenience.

Ubuntu Natty(11.04) 64 Bit
Nvidia GTX 260 with the proprietary 270.41.06 drivers installed.

poclbm just spits out "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC"

Any ideas?

Same problem here.
Attempting to connect to slush's pool without success, just stays at starting for a bit and then connecting.

CPU Usage for the process stays at about 25%.

Console:
Listener for "Default" shutting down
Running command: poclbm.exe --user=***** --pass=***** -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 -d0 --verbose
Listener for "Default" started

OpenCL is also not detected, although a GTX260 is installed with the latest drivers.