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Does Doctor Silberman believe Sarah after witnessing the T-1000?
It is possible he did; however, the machine he sees is nothing like the one Sarah had described. Therefore, it's doubtful that he jumped immediately to the conclusion that Sarah was sane and telling the truth about everything. In Terminator 3, Silberman has an appearance as the trauma counselor for Kate Brewster after she was 'kidnapped.' He says, "When you're in a traumatic situation you find yourself imagining things.
Crazy things...insane things...takes years to get over it." So he obviously dismissed the events as traumatic hallucinations; however, it's clear that he wasn't totally convinced that it didn't happen. Moments later, the T-850 appears and Silberman flees the scene, as it was the third time he had crossed paths with this "man" right before something bad happened. It's possible after that incident he was convinced it was real.
Also, in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we do see Silberman again (played by a different actor) and he very much believes in the machines from the future, though this is a completely separate continuity from the third film.
John demonstrates a knowledge for computer hacking. Is this Skynet's main concern?
John shows an interest for hacking ATMs and manages to bypass the security systems at Cyberdyne. This could be why he is a threat to Skynet. Unfortunately, this character trait failed to be elaborated on in Terminator 3. This may indicate that the time-line has been altered with the destruction of Cyberdyne. However, it was Reese who said in The Terminator that it was John who taught the human resistance to fight and physically destroy the machines.
The opening scene of T2 shows adult John coordinating the battle against the machines, and according to young John, he was instructed in all kinds of weapons in order to become a great military leader. This would suggest that tactical skills are still John's major talents.
Why didn't the large, intact piece of leg from the terminator seen landing on the ground in the factory (in the first film, after Reese blew up the terminator with a pipe bomb) get taken away along with the arm and chip (seen at Cyberdyne)?
Either it wasn't noticed and simply discarded as garbage/rubble, or it's an error/plothole on the part of the film makers. It is possible that all of the pieces of the terminator were collected by Cyberdyne for top secret research, but that the arm and the smashed chip were the only pieces worth keeping on display, as they were the pieces being studied.
It's also possible that they ran tests, carbon dating; all sorts of things on the other pieces, causing them to be destroyed. But unless it was some sort of rare metal currently unheard of on the periodic table (which would necessarily make it radioactive), it was likely considered scrap.
If The Terminator is an infiltration unit who can mimic voices, why does it speak with a thick Austrian accent?
The obvious answer is that's how Arnold Schwarzenegger talks. A movie answer is that Skynet captures humans, replicates their flesh/likenesses and voices in order for the Terminators to be better at infiltrating. So however the captive they replicated spoke would be their default voice pattern. No sequel has officially addressed this matter yet. In Terminator: Salvation the prototype T-800 is seen, but no explanation about the origin of its appearance is given.
However, there was a scene deleted from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines which explained that the T-800s were modeled after sgt. William Candy, who was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, but had a very heavy southern American accent. When one of the military commisioners voices his reservations about the use of the accent, one of the scientists (with Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice) says that it can be fixed. But this scene was omitted from the film so it cannot be counted as continuity. But it can be counted as a temporary answer.
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