For our safety, we should teach robots what types of actions would cause the most amount of bodily harm to a human, and where all our vital organs are located, so they'll have a better idea how to behave safely around us and prevent injury. I see no possible way this could backfire.

This certainly sounds like an attempt to go "Hey! You! Undecided people! Snowden is totally the bad guy because of this! Ignore the other stuff!" Of course, nothing in the real world is ever as simple as (person X) is the bad guy and (person Y) is the hero, but we need a narrative. We need to stick people into archetypal categories with heroes and villains, and episodes/chapters with clear resolutions and unambiguous morals.

I suppose the streaming from your PC to the Steambox would be through your local network. Is the bandwidth of a network connection sufficient for a full HD video stream? Would there need to be some lossy compression to allow streaming at a good frame rate?

Gee, I wonder who gets to decide which rumors are true or false?

Aside from the issues of racial profiling, invasion of privacy, etc... this seems like a huge waste of time, resources, and money. Imagine the hourly rates of everyone from all the agencies involved, and how their hours-long interrogation of a harmless, innocent man diverted all of those resources AWAY from actually preventing terrorism.

It's interesting how well self-driving cars are working early, and it's certainly promising. But I'm wondering if liability issues will put the whole thing on hold for decades? Right now, if you crash, the blame can be assigned to an individual most of the time (aside from rare crashes caused by brake failures or other technical problems). If a self-driving car crashes, the liability would then be with the car company or the company which programmed the self-driving code. There may be a lower risk of crashing in a well-made self-driving car, and the total number of crashes may be reduced greatly, but it could only take a handful of crash incidents to bring down a company.