.... to bring you nothing i suppose. sorry, the website needed an upgrade which it got and then i went absolutely beserk with drupal modules, adding what must have been almost every one in existence, and the site just went fuckin' *bang* (like chopper does). it's mostly fixed now, sort of.
Armstrong defends his Tour record - Lance Armstrong hits back at Tour de France organisers who claim the seven-time Tour champion's return to cycling is "embarrassing". [bbc cycling]
Tour rocked by new positive tests - Two Tour de France stage winners - Italy's Leonardo Piepoli and Germany's Stefan Schumacher - test positive for an advanced blood doping product. [bbc cycling]
Armstrong comeback gets go-ahead - Lance Armstrong has been cleared to make his cycling comeback in January's Tour Down Under in Australia. [bbc cycling]
Armstrong 'must play team role' - Astana tell Lance Armstrong he may have to accept a supporting role to Alberto Contador in next year's Tour de France. [bbc cycling]
Drugs boss rues Armstrong stance - The head of the French anti-doping agency tells BBC Sport that Lance Armstrong has missed a chance to prove his detractors wrong over doping claims. [bbc cycling]
Look what the fails at our local circus telecoms regulator have managed to come up with. If this doesn't say fail all over it then nothing because it does say fail all over it, so there is no if not. And they made me use such vulgar language in the tags for this article. Please nobody show my mother she'd be so upset. Thanks.
Millions of LANs to pay licence fees
[Cape Town | ITWeb, 29 September 2008] - Every local area network (LAN) in the country would have to pay at least a R1 000 licence exemption fee, if ICASA's latest draft licence fee regulations are followed to their logical conclusion, lawyers says.
E-lawyers Dominic Cull and Mike Silber, of Ellipsis Regulatory Affairs, say the draft regulations by the telecommunications regulator do not specify if such local area networks are for private or commercial use.
“This means that possibly millions of local area networks, or even wide area networks, that are in existence and were exempted under the old Telecommunications Act, would now have to pay to obtain that exemption,” Cull says.
However, Denis Smit, MD of research firm BMI-TechKnowledge, believes this is not what ICASA intends with these regulations.
“Although I haven't examined the regulations, I do not believe that ICASA wants everybody to pay such a licence fee. Surely, they must differentiate between those networks intended for commercial use and those that are not,” he says.
No one knows just how many local and wide area networks are in the country. However, estimates are that it could be more than a million.
“The problem with the regulations is that they also potentially include local area networks set up in the home where a person may have an ADSL line and a wireless router. Would the homes then need to pay a R1 000 licence exemption fee?” Silber says.
Last week, ICASA issued a document to set out the licence fees for the industry in terms of the Electronic Communications Act. The objectives of the regulations is to set licence fees payable in respect of an application or registration for a licence amendment, transfers, or renewals.
The main issue dealt with in the draft regulations is the licence fees for class electronic communications services and electronic communications network services licences (ECNS).
The individual ECNS fees are not covered because the communications minister still has to issue a policy directive and then ICASA has to issue an invitation to those telecommunications companies to apply for such I-ECNS licences.
ICASA had not responded to ITWeb's queries by the time of publication.
Hayden: Rossi is one bad dude! - Nicky Hayden congratulates Valentino Rossi on sixth MotoGP title victory. [motogp]
Rossi reflects on MotoGP title glory. - After two successive defeats, Valentino Rossi wins his sixth MotoGP crown in Yamaha's home race at Motegi on Sunday. [motogp]
Rossi wants another F1 test with Ferrari. - Yamaha's six-time MotoGP Champion Valentino Rossi may admit that his chance to race in F1 has now passed - but that does not stop the Italian from wanting to drive a Ferrari again...and the Scuderia suggests he may just get his wish... [motogp]