Ya its funny all the people screaming the sky is falling. News flash if you are transferring more then 0.001 BTC and your transaction isn't made of a hundred 0.00001 BTC inputs then you will never even notice this "stress test". Just go have a look on blockchain.info all normal transactions are processing fine.
"The number of backlogged transactions is currently above 90,000 and climbing, and the size of the “memory pool,” the database that stores them, is shooting past 150MB. It usually sits below 10. On the Bitcointalk forum, where much of today’s action is going down, users are reporting that their Bitcoin clients are crashing when they try to collect the coins."
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/great-job-everyone-bitcoiners-are-ddosing-bitcoin
LOL all you prove is you can read an article. I repeat normal transactions are going through fine. The mem pool is bigger then normal and may crash some nodes but most likely unless it gets to GB will have little to no effect.
Of course bitcoin clients are crashing when they try to collect the coins and import a private key that is linked to thousands of dust transactions! LOL
The actually effect on people trying to use the bitcoin network as normal is close to zero. Just watch transactions coming out. I will pick one at random that I consider a "normal" bitcoin transaction and watch it will be confirmed in a short time. https://blockchain.info/tx/0da91e9a02301c7e4783d04ceba11f254f17d4fc1c8cd253dc5c499d18da71e7