cantfindmypass

That would require trusted centralized verification.

As of right now, Namecoin doesn't look at data in DNS for validating transactions.

This proposal involved hard-forking Namecoin, and has a lot of inherent issues with it. Also note that this proposal is by "some guy on a Namecoin forum", and not anything official.

It is possible to delegate stuff to DNS (and some DNSSEC patches were recently merged - see http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1434&p=7718), but even if records are delegated to DNS namecoin doesn't know or care what's there.

Namecoin is essentially a key-value store. A .bit domain is a key under Namecoin's d/ namespace, and the value is some JSON data describing the domain, per this spec: http://dot-bit.org/Namespace:Domain_names_v2.0

Edit: Actually, to further clarify, Namecoin itself doesn't know/care about the semantics of what data is stored for a domain. The data is interpreted by applications that act as application layer bridges to other resolver protocols. Check out nmcontrol and NamecoinToBind for examples.

Is there a staging server I can have root on?

But would they have known to look there?

How can this possibly do anything but enable tracking? They can just embed hmac(secret, your_email).png.

ISTR the PS3's Cell processor had eight physical cores to increase yeild.

For those confused, he means 1o57 - he created the DEFCON mystery challenge and usually is involved in the badge contest.