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Thoughts:

1.) When I imagine changing the "safety" settings, I always imagined something in the escape menus that would pull me away from what's happing in space around me. I applaud the little UI button that clearly indicates my safety setting, and enables me to change it fluidly during a battle. With that said, I would like to be able to define my 'default' setting. I understand the need for everyone's default to be "safe" to start, but I really think having to switch it from safe to partially safe or living dangerous every time I log in is excessive. This is really only a minor gripe though....

2.) Do you have to come to a complete stop to "safe" logoff? It really sounded like you do, which is awkward:
--- If you can't move, you can't be aligned to escape assuming a hostile enter's grid. Many players often counter enemy probes by aligning to a warp out, and warping the moment a hostile enters the grid, but if they have to align from rest first, larger ships will be easily caught.
--- Essentially the upcoming changes mean you can NOT easily escape from hostiles probing for you by logging out.... even if you are safe at the moment by being at a random bookmark and cloaked. This is detrimental to any supercap pilot that attempts to log out in space when a determined opponent is in system. Their only options are to log out inside a POS, or to cyno out of the system. Perhaps reduce the "safe" logoff timer to 20 seconds, and then the window to catch these ships is small enough to make it generally possible.

3.) Overall, these are good changes... Thank you for your work!

4.) Are you planning to create a "system" safety settings too.... with an easily alterable HUD element that prevents you from entering highsec (while gcc) or lower sec (while risk-adverse)?

They don't mean you have to toggle the safeties every "session change".

They mean you have to toggle the safeties every time you Log Onto your Character.

minus the big numbers and color coding wasn't this already a feature? I know I always get a warning in high sec when I accidentally try to mine something not a rock. I just assume I'm always one click away from stupid death.. it makes me careful.

The safety setting is completely irrelevant in nullsec/wormholes on Buckingham.

Does the security button remember your choice between sessions? Last time I tested it it didn't; I had to set it to yellow every time I logged.

Will it be as fast to adjust your safety as clicking through the gcc warning? If so, great. But I suspect not; for the gcc warning I can just hit enter or tab enter (don't remember whether "yes" or "no" is default). To adjust safety, don't I have to open the safety dialogue, then move the mouse to choose one of the safety settings?

Sounds like what you'll want to do most of the time is have your safety partial or off and make judgement calls of what to shoot or rep. It's just a lock to catch you for those weird edge cases.

If you don't like the safety, turn it off and leave it there.

It might take a half second longer. "Click button, select option, let mouse button go"

This depends on the state of timers:

A.) Assuming you have no timers: Your ship will ewarp 1m km's and, assuming no one aggresses you, will despawn after ONE minute.
---- Note: It is possible for someone to scan you down within that 1 minute and aggress you. If they do, you will gain a PvP timer that prevents your ship from despawning for 15 minutes. This timer will be renewed with any additional acts of aggression, pretty much meaning your ship dies.

B.) Assuming you currently have an NPC timer: Your ship will attempt to ewar 1m km's. This ewarp can be inhibited by any warp scrambling effect (most likely from NPC rats in this case). Assuming no-player aggersses you, your ship will despawn after the FIVE minute NPC timer ends.
---- Note: It is possible for someone to scan you down within that 5 minutes and aggress you. If they do, you will gain a PvP timer that prevents your ship from despawning for 15 minutes. Same as above... you probably die if this happens.

C.) Assuming you currently have a PvP timer: Your ship will attempt to ewarp 1m km's. This ewarp can be inhibited by any warp scrambling effect. Assuming no new players aggress you, your ship will despawn after the FIFTEEN minute PvP timer ends.
---- Note: It is possible for someone to attack your ship within that 15 minutes and aggress you. If they do, your PvP timer is renewed, and your ship will not despawn for at least 15 minutes. In this case, you will probably die...

The safety system is actually easier than I thought it would be. I hate it when I get a popup ninja looting. More excellent changes.