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Are there any industries where private equity has come in and resulted in better, less expensive, or faster advances in their industry sector?

Bert Monroy (the 2nd image, of an alleyway) is still quite active as a digital artist: https://www.bertmonroy.com

Same here, it was one that captured the vibe of the Virgin America perfectly and the only one I actually recall watching. It was directed by Jon M Chu, who subsequently directed Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights, Wicked, and more.

Having toiled in the Google mines for almost as long a tenure as Ben before my time came in 2021, the words 'The conflict between “uncomfortable culture” and “golden handcuffs” was becoming intolerable.' could not ring any truer.

Planned or unplanned obsolescence is good for business. You are proposing regulations counter to that, so should expect counter-pressure, even for IoT makers that want to do the right thing.

By volume and impact, what devices have IoT vulnerabilities? If from large mfrs, you might expect some measure of support as that would be somewhat in their best interest, if only to preserve their brand image. My concern would be low quality, usually cheaper, whack-a-mole mfrs that come and go on Amazon, eBay, etc. Even if they release a product that would fall under these guidelines, how are you going to go after a ghost?

Also, what happens when an IoT mfr is acquired, does the acquirer assume all the IoT risks as well?

I backed the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual project on Kickstarter. It's a wonderful book. My copies were slightly damaged in transit and they were replaced. I still have the 3 slightly damaged ones (dings on the cover, mostly) and if anyone wants them you can have them for the price of postage from the US. Ping me at the email in my bio.

Wasn't this the intent behind Windows Vista - a tag-based DB-as-filesystem with hierarchical paths just one "lens" through which to view the DB? I use Google Drive this way, largely through search rather than directory-based organization, though I do also employ that for often-used collections.

Can you indicate more than only yes/no for a measure of how secure the 2FA can be?

The choice of some site's 2FA implementations are known to be problematic, such as SMS only (easily hijacked), or supporting TOTP and/or HOTP, but also requiring you to allow SMS or "security questions", reducing the degree of security.

It's also a job far far overcompensated if you are saying job risk is what should determine pay. By your reckoning, soliders and construction workers should be the ones with the highest compensation. See http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

Lifetime cost of living increases, raises and medical coverage for you and your family for life, and that on top of any additional public safety job pension you get makes it really sad that police and fire who are supposed to be protecting and improving society are instead bankrupting it and making it worse by preventing funds from being used for much needed infrastructure improvements.