interesting post. i think that it goes to nerd pride in what they know, in the association of knowledge with self-worth, and the mistaken belief that to admit igorance means the impossibility of ever knowing, which is damaging to that self-worth. When in fact ignorance is simply a challenge to learn, often from others. Like Han Yu said so long ago in his "On The Pyschology of Attacking Others", "He who would expect perfection from others but is willing to tolerate mediocrity in himself, cannot be said to have any self respect." Perhaps as long as we nerds remain strictly intolerant of mediocrity in ourselves, we are not truly arrogant. It would be great if I, at least, could be better at not being so demanding of others, bu hopefully making stringent demands on oneself will be enough to save me and other nerds from the worst effects of arrogance...

here are some takes on the interesting parts of the original vid (from http://military.cntv.cn/program/jskj/20110717/100139.shtml) Timestamp (TS) 11:08: dropdown menu option for DDoS -> Ctrl+D. The software looks pretty old, definitely the IP address has been inactive for a while, interesting that whatever software they built includes DDoS options. TS 11:09: interesting string across the top reads XX....1.0 the XXs are too blurry, rest reads "XX-type Network Attack System... PLA Electronic Engineering Institute... Version 1.0" Hope someone can get the XX. TS 11:10: one of the dropdown options is for Falun Dafa in the Alabama region. These guys did their homework! And it's interesting that the IP address is for the Alabama site even though the final selection is for Minghui Network (TS 11:13) which is hosted on the West Coast. Problem in the software? TS 11:12: you can see the Alabama IP address site being loaded in a screencap on the left side. Site definitely looks like Falun Gong what with the "Truthfulness" slogan and all. I don't think the site at ABU is running anymore. So that prolly gives some sort of idea of when this software was actually running? Quien sabe.