I think you might be searching for the term "nostalgia bias" otherwise known as rosy retrospection.

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Nothing annoys a young person like an old person talking about the "good old days" especially when there exists objective historical records demonstrating that they were dumber, they had a lower quality of life, their technology was inferior, their brand of politics had horrendous consequences, etc..

Initial set up of the device could certainly require setting a password to activate. However, there's nothing stopping, and many will, set an easily guessable password anyway. Fools will forever be fools.

I thought we already complained about the blue screen of death...

Pins can be read from the POS keypad with rather low tech, minimal effort, particularly the ones using metallic keys.

Japan may have had these kind of cards for a while but I'm not sure they're a good example. The over whelming majority of transactions in Japan are with cash. Cards (mostly prepaid) have only recently started gaining popularity.

I thought they already had lap belt extenders...

One can always find exceptions to rules. Rules of thumb such a pinching fat, or looking down to see whether or not you can see your toes, etc. work pretty well on the general populace.

BMI was invented as an accommodation to practitioners involved with the general populace such as dietitians and physical trainers, for whom proper evaluation is beyond their intellectual reach. For the majority of the population existing within the bell curve, BMI fits reasonably well. Athletes don't fit the bell curve and anyone running in those circles doesn't give BMI serious consideration. In other words, it was a tool invented to call fat people fat.

Not really, it a piece of Dell, err sh*t.

Actually it is because RT did so well. I can envision management types trying to find ways to get some ROI on their investment in ARM after the Windows RT flop. In traditional fashion of chasing bad investments with more bad investments, out comes Server "RT".

Don't worry, I'm sure the software can scale the model up for you.

There's no need to wait and see. This idea is foo'd up for all the same reasons that HAM radio operators have a statistically significant higher incident of cancer. Why everyone is racing to drop the broadcast power of cellphones. And, why putting your head in the microwave is generally considered a bad idea.

Are you going glow green, set off radiation detectors at airports, or erupt in blisters and boils? No, but just because it isn't ionizing radiation doesn't mean its harmless.

One begins to wonder which of the three possibilities is accurate... coincidence, waited for such an event, or furnished the event.

Judging by the sexual harassment reports, I'm guessing no. They must be cutting back on cycling soldiers through SE Asia.

I see what you did there.