running the latest (rc4) I even swapped some emails with andrew bartlett on the mailing list, still no joy.

I saw that, it doesn't provide a solution, the file is not in the latest git pull nor in the tarball download. If I was really ambitious I gues I could start downloading & searching prior tarballs, but that really should not have to be done. It would be nice to know what source files generate the library. I have a sneaking suspicion they have renamed, as they did with the "provision" command and the code/library is really there, just not with the name in the import statement. I went through all the names with 'kdc' in them and it was not intuitively obvious that any of them correlated with the policy library. I am not stupid and tried really hard to use other avenues to resolve the issue before p*ssing and moaning, I would imagine things will get better once they start making a .deb package. At this point, the only PPA's I could find were for the alpha releases, sigh. I am really surprised there are not yum/apt/etc nightly packages available. Automating the package release seems like a no-brainer for either the SAMBA or Ubuntu team.

Not expecting a drop-in but I would like it to at least provision a domain or have some response on irc or the samba maing list as to why it fails. Having the wiki howto up to date would not be a bad idea either.
The wiki and most other online resources indicate the one should use the "provision" command. This command is no longer available in the S4RC you must use samba-tool to accomplish the task.
sudo samba-tool domain provision --realm=new.example.com --domain=NEWDOM --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ --adminpass=badpass --server-role='domain controller'
Unfortunately, attempting to provision on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install with the following additional packages:
build-essentials python-software-properties build-essential libacl1-dev python-dev libldap2-dev pkg-config gdb libgnutls-dev libblkid-dev libreadline-dev libattr1-dev openssl (please note these pre-requisite are not documented in the wiki) gives the following error:
"libkdc-policy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
and I cant get an answer as to where to find or build this module or find such info in a web search. All in all, it has been a very frustrating experience.

"getting caught"
one a billion chance, given TSA's record to date. You are much more likely to have a personal possession stolen from your luggage or cash from your wallet in the tray or lose a testicle when they squeeze too hard in their excitement.

last I saw on the mailing list, you had to compile from the git head to get functional code. What ver is in the repo?

That would test and identify a drive for NCQ and cache disable/enable operation correctness that would report the model/serial and result to a central website

Bullshit. They are lying, you can see their lips moving.

Not the same cost. CC billing is full retail.

I kinda enjoyed playing and was even willing to pay for the privilege.
I'd buy 60 day cards online at a discount and it brought the price down to under $13/month. Suddenly you couldn't get 60 day cards, only 30 day. So in addition to the higher price/day you had the additional PITA of manually updating your subscription every month. I stopped playing.

Actually more like the beginning of a John Ringo novel.

Thus the desire to get to the bottom of things.

Your laptop has an asshole?
What's wrong with it?

How about a price list in TFS for budget planning?