I had a rental Chevy Yukon a couple weeks ago, and it had an on-screen keyboard for the navigation, even when driving!

I'm hoping this is ready for me to buy my new Mustang, end of next year. If not, it could push me towards holding off until it is!

I think the 'plug in' portion was purely a connotation for connection, rather than defining the interface. I seriously doubt you'll need to use USB. Newer navigation interfaces allow you to thumbs up/down via Pandora over Bluetooth.

If you've opted into Google Now, they're already tracking where you drive, when, and providing contextual information. Hell, Google Now remembers where you parked!

The worst part was that I hadn't even been drinking, just pushing my kid's stroller in the French Quarter! I shifted my gaze for two seconds, and ran his stroller into the damn thing. Almost went ass over tea kettle!

South Carolina just passed a law, banning texting while driving (except while sitting at a stop light or stop sign), and expressly indicated that officers have no ability to confiscate a phone to prove that you were texting. I like laws like that, that limit the officer's actions.

With regards to horses, in cities, we have these all over Charleston, SC...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking...

I worked missile defense (DDGs and CGs) for a bunch of years, and there are a lot of things that are right, some that are iffy, and some suppositions that are wrong. That said, you should be very proud of your OS2. What ship?

I totally agree with you! The building I used to work at, where AEGIS BMD is developed and tested, had the saying "Build a little, test a little, learn a lot" on its facade. Admiral Wayne Meyer, father of AEGIS, coined that phrase, and it should be applied to all projects, with capabilities coming incrementally and…

Are you going to make me break out my CV? You know what? I'm feeling saucy. I've got a meeting in fifteen minutes, but I can take a few minutes out of my day.

You really know nothing about missile defense. I think your mom just called for dinner. Head on upstairs, chap. Let the big kids talk.

I'll just note that Lockheed Martin builds that awesome Aegis BMD system. The one that actually works. Raytheon builds the actual interceptor, though.

Because it's very successful, rapidly deployable, movable, and can be fielded in much larger numbers than this program, including a ground-based version that will soon deploy to Romania?

Came here to say this. I could see it being a 1/2 scale model, but not 1/3.

You know what's just as badass as those guns? The fact that the fire control computers were all analog, even up to their final decommissioning. Sure, there were digital computers added along the way for Tomahawk, Harpoon, CIWS, Link, etc, but firing those big 'ole guns required computing targeting solutions with…

Nationalistic pride aside, if you truly believe that researching, designing, integrating, testing, and fielding a sixty-five year old design, plus incorporating stealth (from scratch) and advanced weaponry systems, with advanced C4ISR features will cost less than the total program cost of the F-35, you're delusional. …

You're seriously stating, for the record, that an aircraft designed in the fifties would stand any chance against the F-35. I just want to make sure you're being clear.

Wait...is your real name Pierre Sprey?

That definitely looks like a series of bunkers, with either howitzer-type guns or anti-aircraft guns. Perhaps it's a training facility?

The Akula-class (attack sub, not missile sub) was never quiet, and never intended to be. It was designed to be the fastest, deepest diving sub in history, and it achieved that. Unfortunately, they were loud as hell, and the US could pick them up at great distances at anything above a crawl.