There is one workaround and that is to create throwaway accounts.

So you create an account specifically with the intention of sharing the username and password with your trading party.  You wouldn't want the account to get flagged as needing verification so the amounts you would hold in it would need to be under the levels that non-verified accounts are allowed to transfer.

This lets you lock in a certain amount of USDs and transfer that value as dollars to someone else by giving the username and password to them.  Then that person completes the verification steps to withdraw the dollars  (or use the funds to buy bitcoins at a later time).   Since most people already have a Mt. Gox account, trying to get verification on a second account at Mt. Gox would likely bring closer scrutiny and/or see the funds getting frozen.   

Also, there's the chance the person who funded the account will claim the account was lost due to identity fraud (hacker gaining username/password) after trading it away and possibly regaining access to the funds.   So this isn't a method two parties who don't have trust in each other would want to follow.

But it might be a way to separate off some bitcoins into multiple accounts, convert them to dollars to lock in a certain amount of value in USDs, and then later trade those USDs away.

That's nowhere near as convenient as the redeemable codes, but it is an option.

Of course, other exchanges still have account-to-account (A2A) transfers, if the need is simply a USD-denominated store of value that can be easily transferred to and from BTCs:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/A2A_Transfer_Methods

I think I read they have at least 85000 asic --- the asic works ok but use more power than expected --- they need to find a easy design solution to the problem --- note these asic use less than 50% power  of avalon (bfl asic will be better in long term - less power ) --- so design may end up in a much larger case with bigger power supply

Generally speaking, more males.

The problem is that it's a terrible idea to start this topic, nevermind any sexist implications that would come from adding such a terrible idea to this topic.
                                

What the fuck?

They also cook with water. The cost of computer hardware is negligible, both in the world of finance and the amount of profit mtgox had during the last year.
What performance? There were computerized exchanges in the 90s dammit.

Second: Look at the issues I raised above: Which part do you think requires high performance computing by todays standards?

Yes this bubble pop was a good thing but I have news for you: bubbly speculation will return.

Yeah I've read the "under funded orders" explanation. But it just doesn't make sense.

My problem is: Forex and Stock trading platforms operate in the sub-millisecond range, I don't know if you've seen the ted talk of how they drilled a tunnel through a mountain to shorten the path the signal has to travel.
So while the professional have systems performant enough that the speed of light becomes relevant we have issues to even keep up with price fluctuations.

Going by past bitcoin conferences ypou would be wise to pull your bitcoins out of any service represented there.

Did you account for the fact that Mt.Gox was offline for 12 hours?

I don't think Mt.Gox's monopoly is over yet - unfortunately.

Like losing 25000 BTC of customers funds one day, probably never to be returned? I don't think I'd ever trade at an exchange which had such a mishap and didn't resolve it, the risk is too high that it might happen again.

I am not an IT professional but it seems like there are some ideas to improve the situation.  I suppose the next logical question is why mtgox isn't doing anything.  Or why they aren't communicating.  The message on their site about letting the market "cool down" was very bizarre.  I am confused by all of this.  Did they close to update server capacity or to let the market "cool down"?  If they didn't do anything to improve the situation why are they open now?  Opening again and being faced with the exact same problems isn't helpful to anyone.

I am not in any kind of hurry to buy or sell, I am just sitting on my coins and watching.  It just seems that mtgox isn't doing anything to help themselves.