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Does XFCE suffer with the Gnome3 affliction of having a top menu bar and a program menu bar underneath? I am left looking through a letter box at my software. Unity was good at this...Gnome3 is not

Don't blame the email

1) Before email I had more letters and phone calls

2) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails and that is not mandated by your manager, that is your fault.

3) If you disrupt your flow to answer emails because your manager insists, then that is your managers fault.

I personally don't even notice emails arrive while I am in the zone. I answer them in batches once free.

But they could charge you a reasonable fee before. Now it will be free!

Depends on your business. I didn't find it as hard as PCI compliance for instance

I'm using pyvenv even though it has started warning me I should move. I won't change from it for exactly the reasons in this comic.

When I do a new OS install I will try pipenv again...but it dind't work well for me the first time due to conflicting with something I had installed outside of a virtualenv!

> Laws like GDPR are written in such away that make them open to "legal trolls"

Except with GDPR all you could do is report them to the member states governing body. So no trolling.

> Very Specific and not open to interpenetration

Except this makes them inflexible and leads to them having to be constantly redrafted. So no use to the world of the HN.

> Have options for "settlement" as this rewards the guilty, and harms the innocent

GDPR is between you and the regulator, they already do this work and the whole aim of the process is to stop you doing bad things. A fine is a late step in the process for organisations who wont listen.

> Have more public resources for people with limited resources. Law firms and Large corporations use Legal Expenses has a weapon in Civil Courts over smaller companies due to the high costs and generally no public resources for Civil access

Is off topic when it comes to GDPR, see my previous answers

> All Civil Cases must have to show Actual Damages not Theoretical Damages

Again off topic with GDPR, but in the UK that is how damages works already, isn't it?

> But every HTTP server handles personal data

But not all of them have a good reason to log it. /dev/null

Under what circumstances are you expecting to receive a $5m dollar fine? To me (who is assessing this risk at a UK SME) the idea of an SME receiving this kind of fine is absurd. As the poster above said, the law asks for proportionate fines.

The big number max fines in GDPR are there to deal with companies like Google and Facebook who can write of $5m as a rounding error.

People who have been fined at all under the existing DPA, being enforced by the very same people as GDPR, have been negligent, repeat offenders. I don't believe anyone has ever received the maximum fine in the existing regulations. That just isn't how UK law works

> I think this highlights the EU vs US perspective on Government nicely

And the differences in the legal systems specifically. I think this is why a lot of HN commentators are finding the GDPR vague. In the US rule based regulations are the norm. For better or worse this tends to allow those with clever lawyers to search for loopholes. UK law is much more principle-based, which means trying to abuse the exact wording is not going to save you from a fine, and equally a technical-breach of wording is not going to get you prosecuted. It's not just the civil servants that we trust with this, it is the judges too.

Larger than small business here, we are not employing a DPO and we are complying with GDPR.

I'm afraid I disagree entirely. If your business is aggregating data in order to sell more effective advertising then you are walking a line and need a lawyer. If your business is selling widgets and you collect personal details in order to complete orders then you are just going to have to write some documentation.

I can tell you as someone who is working in an old school retailer/wholesaler we are not, and neither is anyone we are talking to through various trade bodies, employing lawyers to do GDPR.

That sort of depends if you were complying with the UK Data Protection Act (1998), or any of the other European acts stemming from the 1995 directive, already. GDPR is only an incremental step from there. It would appear that lots of people considered the DPA as optional, yes GDPR is quite a bit of work for them.