My guideline, never dress better than the boos, but do dress better than the cleaner.
However, as I work for many clients, it's best just to dress as they do. Currenly business's shirts, suit pants, and a waistcoat (too hot for a jacket, but doesn't feel formal enough to me without it) but I only wear a tie if in a management meeting.
If working after hours, then no ripped jeans and a t shirt. If they want me to work on my personal time, they can suck up whatever I'm wearing 8)

Nuke the drive, and do a secure erase. The IT department will probably do a rebuild anyway.

I get 60GB a month over a cable service, giving me 10Mb/s. This costs me NZ$80. I dont have the Telstra cable TV services. AS I have good bandwidth, I also have VoIP provider, 2000 minutes locally for NZ$16 / month. Compared to NZ$50 I was paying Telecom for similar functions (call waiting, voicemail, etc) VoIP also gives me two efective lines for simultaneous calls, and I can run my own PABX if I want to with dedicated extensions. I have Freeview (free to air HD digital) for basic broadcast TV services.
But Media services - there are no Legal movie streaming services in NZ, so there is a huge saving 8),
I pay Fatso NZ$15 for 4 movies a month on DVD (can upgrade any available to Blueray if I want, but I dont agree with the DRM placed on Bluerays) and will consider Quickster when they actually get some content worth watching. I also buy about one DVD a month, and rip it for my Media server (PLEX)
No Telstra Cable TV packages available without phone services, and the data caps start at 20GB, and would cost NZ$89.95/month. The Pay TV carried is Sky. The highest bandwidth package is NZ$65.95, but only carries 40GB of data, and the free to air channels for NZ$65.95.
UHF digital Sky 50 Channels of crap for NZ$46.12/month. Add sport for $35.15, Add Platinum Movies for $31.88.

I think I am saving a packet by only getting content I actually watch.

I'm still confused as to why we need this on phones in the first place.
My current credit card has a mag stripe, and a contact chip, and gives me access to my account through eftpos. How come this can't just be expanded to include an RFID? I've seen a solar powered credit card sized calculator, so surely they could build a card with the simple smarts to say ill only pay when you are touching the card here, or when swiped left and right at a certain velocity near a reader. It could even be powered by the reader itself, or maybe even have the card coated in smart dust.
If a phone HAS to be used, then how about the new Bluetooth spec, or add the function to the existing radios? Or include some security like location/time and bump detection before the transaction will complete? Or even just let me charge my card like a snapper card, but shrink it so it's part of the sim chip?
Put the smarts into the terminal, like email me the recipts, or store them in my bank website so I can look at them there. just decide on some WORLDWIDE standards for this already!

Yeah, I've been using social plugins with OUtlook at work, but I'm not facebook firends with many in my work mail account. I'd love it if there was similar plugins for Thunderbird, where I have all my personal mail and contacts where I do follow many in FB ot Twitter, or even G+ now.

A wolf, or a dingo are wild dogs. The offspring of an abandoned poodle is likely to be feral, not wild.

And make it world wide availability, in any region, DRM free, becasue it will end up getting pirated widely where it cant be bought legitimately.
Pay TV: Im not going to PAY for TV aand have to watch Ads. If they want my eyeballs on an ad, the content had better be free.

The other issue is consistency, sometimes you can use voice in the menus, sometimes you can't, and it seems unable to understand my kids at all, which is very frustrating for them.
And one in the games there are different ways to select menu items etc. if there was a standard API of gursturs that woul make more sense. The kinnect gets much less use than I expected by the kids.

I like what Charlie Stross says about piracy on his ebooks. I paraphrase as I dont have the actual quote handy "I'd rather the book be pirated and read by millions rather than die unread behind a paywall"
He has also said for every book he gives away, it generate sales of that book, and all his other books many times over.

It would be, it it was available outside the USA. Yes I know about VPNs etc, but it really is just easier to download the whole damn file.

I download illegal copies of a lot of movies, but this month alone I have gone to the cinema to see MIB 3, the Lorax, Avengers and will go to see Prometheus next week when it comes out. For me and my Family, thats over $160 gone into the movie market, becasue that is a service I dont mind paying for. I'd also buy DRM free movies if they were sold here (or at all), but then I would have to go to the movies less. My money supply is not bottomless, but is finite. If I spend $30 on a download in iTunes, thats one less movie I will take the family to at the cinema.

Exactly, under Fair Use, I am allowed to rip copies of my own DVDs for personal use. I can then store that file where ever the hell I want to. How is someone going to tell my personal use RIP from an identical copy on TPB, or on MegaUpload once the Feds get through with it. However as child porn possesion is illegal, I could be in the shit if found in my possession, where I ripped it from a DVD I won or not 8)

The only hard thing about cutting the cord is finding legal content. However, how come all the power of Hollywood can't workout how to make a buck selling a service like "TVShows" and Plex all bundled together?
How do I get a new show now? I hear some buzz on a social network about an upcoming show, so I just subscribe to it on TVShows. It appears when ready and is downloaded automatically. Plex server then indexes it and it shows up in my unwatched or recent items in Plex frontent (on my phone, on my ipad, on my mac media centre, on my widows laptop etc), which I can then watch on just about any screen I own, anywhere on the planet where I can find the bandwidth.

Because if the way the torrents work, its not a huge internaltional load, because there are so many local peers. I would pay for this service if it was legal, and I could keep using whatever players I like, not having to use a prescribed TV box, or only a certain OS or tablet, in a certain country.

My moral standing: Its not theft if they won't sell it to you 8) as they arent loosing a sale.
They wont provide the content I want, in my region, DRM free to work with my existing equipment, and now seem to have even less intention of doing so? Long live The Pirate Bay!

Just like it was easier to assassinate a Saudi citizen in Pakistan and dump his body at sea than go throught the messy business of extradition and trial?