White noise is a common synthetic noise source used for sound masking by a Tinnitus masker.
White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. White noise CDs, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by blocking out irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment. In open plan offices, large corporations such as ExxonMobil apply white noise to reduce the reach of speech, thus, by preventing office staff from being distracted by conversations in the background, safeguarding productivity.
I agree with David that no amount will ever keep programmers from programming. So instead of sweating out 14+ hours a day in hope that you can retire in 5 years, why not live your life as you go.
http://domainsite.com/ works really well. Simple UI and full domain control is what I look for. It also has a simple 1 click integration with google apps.
The advantage of this script is that it directly monitors the IPs using netstat so one could stop bots from hammering things other than your webserver, say socket connections.
It is customizable to use APF or iptables and worked quite well when one of my friend's site was hit.
Perhaps it is difficult to define an attribute such as consciousness/self-awareness let alone measure it. How does one know he is self-aware? Perhaps one who says he is self-aware never is.
Not to mention the size. A HTML + CSS + JS (jQuery) implementation of a simple component such as a menu would end up being ~50KB. In flash it turns out to be less than 1KB.