SECURE THE NETWORK
If you don't wish to use p2pool, at least try to join a smaller pool. Ideally I'd love to see everyone using p2pool but that's not realistically going to happen and it's actually not ideal for very small (ie. less than one modern GPU) miners, but even if we could get all the traditional pools down to at most 15% of nethash, that would be a very significant achievement.
Sorry a bit OT with my opinion.
I think the cheapest method to deter ASICS or 51% is to make the protocol human and favour human more than ASICS. The email password and ID password method should be incorporate into crypto network protocol requesting randomly authentication through the miners client.
The current arm race will promote largest capital to drive more ASICS out from foundries and the original rational to create BTC will fail to achieve the objective of de-centralized control.
There is 2 distinct form of market. Free market comprise of human or market of robots HFT machines and ASICS. The latter are non-human friendly.