How do all the bad actors in this case just get to walk away?

"You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!"

Too bad there isn't a mod for "didn't get the joke."

So if the choice is between death and quadriplegia... I don't know about you, but I'd rather try out being a quadriplegic first, BEFORE the dying thing.

Unless you have an iron lung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... These aren't even new.

Because when the police jam cellular, they don't jam FM. http://gawker.com/5830458/san-...

What can you do with it besides edit lidar and sonar information? Does it have some sort of big data application?

I'm sorry, but no. Until there is a Liu Cixin version of the Clarke Orbit, you need to pick another scifi writer as a comparision.

Johnny Mnemonic?

Dang, wish I saw this great summary before reading this stupid click-bait of a... this fine article.

Too bad there isn't a website like groklaw that would track these things and provide some pretty nifty analysis too.

I think your understanding of the word robot is flawed. Google's driverless car is a robot. Does it really need to know what is and is not human? It's just trying to go from point A to point B. Running over things, like people, would impede this goal.

Yeah, generally, people with that kind of money and exposure, already have a protection detail.

...cue the snide C/C++ programmer remarks.

cagraham, Data Warehouse doesn't mean what you think it means. The fire was at just a warehouse.