In Québec, there is no-fault insurance. All drivers pay into (ghasp!) Socialized single insurance system, and no-one figures out who is to blame for a given accident. There are standard rules, no huge payouts, and almost everything gets settled out of court. Far, Far cheaper. My hand is up for a self-driving car, pick me!

oh, make sure it works in the snow though...

Dude. Really. WTF?

Exactly. In Canada, there is one health insurance provider, run by provincial governments and it is illegal for doctors to charge any additional amounts to what the government decrees is the fee for any given service, unless they simply do not use the system at all (and charge other entitites for the entire cost of the services.)

Canada is the country that brought you Matrox, ATI, QNX, RIM and where most of the world's mines get their capital from ( http://www.tmx.com/en/listings/sector_profiles/mining.html ) hardly a hotbed of socialism. Yet the Canadian scheme is far to the left of Obamacare.... but in the U.S. Obamacare is "radical" and "left wing"... U.S. rhetoric is completely unreasonable, leaving no room for any discussion. It is clear that it is difficult to negotiate with left-wing radicals... the problem is stop calling reasonable people left-wing radicals, and it will become a heck of a lot easier to negotiate.

I think he means this: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/04/08/11/1712204/munich-to-go-ahead-with-linux-after-all

I think all the examples you cited as radical are laughably over blown hyperbole. What is scary is that folks don't even seem to realize that it is hyperbole anymore. Just because someone is 1 degree off dead centre, or even ten degrees off, does not make them radical. To me, radicals plant bombs (or fake bombs just to inconvenience people), commit sabotage, and generally pursue extra parliamentary means to get their point across. Some of the more radical acts of the student protests this spring in quebec (powders and fake bombs in the subway) to lump main stream political parties in the same category is pure polemic demonization, which hampers rational discussion by amplifying polarization to the point where no-one can discuss anything.

that sucks!

Bingo, our numerous neighbours to the south can choose between pretty right (Clinton liberalized the rules that created the mortgage meltdown) that some choose to label "left wing" because their actual preference is to the right of Attila the Hun (fact checking required.) Their other choice is feigning to be further right but is actually a conspiracy by one percenters to wrap themselves in populist b.s. (religious, libertarian, conservative, or whatever comes to hand.) and maximize their federal returns ... frankly looks like 'murricans are screwed either way, and the two party system is a sham. So like wake up folks: both your parties are far right, and this perpetual bike shedding looks quite silly in front of the fiscal cliff.

As a neighbour, and most of our economy is trading with you guys, we know that if you all don't pull it together, we are going over that cliff right a long with you, yee haw! So while I get that it's none of our business... well it kind of is our business too, and all we can do is watch, and it is terrifying.

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience. The colour in my cheeks is riz, I shall now sit in the centre of my chesterfield.

not only that, he drives a '93 escort wagon... a GERMAN car. either a caumuenist, a ferner, or a libral for sure.

As a Canadian, It's terrifying that Americans think their center-right government is made up of "crazy radicals".

filing a bug with netflix means they cannot say that 'no-one ever asks for it'' ... filing it over and over again means they have to mark it as a dup, close it, file it, and it shows up on their metrics. how many other bugs do they have that affects roughly 1% of their population (say 5 million subscribers, that's 50,000)

Fair enough, but to admin a Linux network, LDAP to Samba is like replacing a bicycle with a 30 ton truck. Sure, it is still transportation, but the operating costs are a little different. On Linux, you don't need it. You don't need NT shares (just use sshfs) you don't want group profiles (just use files in /etc), things done with Samba are usually done far more simply on Linux without it. Once you have it in place, you need to feed it... that complexity costs admin time forever. Sure, if you are stuck with a mixed environment, then it is necessary, but if you can avoid it, it is better to apply a suite of lighter tools.

The answer is no, Samba4 is not a good idea for admining a network of linux desktops. The point of Samba is to admin a windows network with a linux server. The poster never mentioned windows, and is asking about a tool like Active Directory for linux. He likely just means distributed authentication management. The answer is likely openldap (with or without kerberos) For all the other functions, there are tools, like chef, puppet, dsh, etc... that are better than anything in the Windows world.

Where is this house? can you get FTTH? if not, Cable? If you are stuck on DSL... well, forget it, it will never be a real geek house.

You're on slashdot, you know technology evolves. The tech on satellites is essentially CMOS cameras and computers to manage sending the data to ground stations. Satellite lifetime: 20 years from design to end of life... "Current" satellite designs are 20 years old. Launch costs are relatively the same. So the choice is to spend a tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars to put up a platform, and operate for fifteen years or so. So do you put one up with technology that will be forty years old by the end of it's service life? It's going to be the same money whether it is 40 year old tech or twenty year old tech. Do you have a twenty year old CCD camera? Overall, Is that likely good value for money?