I've done scrap and dump runs and carried 2300 pounds of landscaping blocks in my half ton Tacoma. And very few people actually need to tow anything, ever.

1400 pound load rating? That's over half a ton, and is more than the rated load capacity of my Tacoma and most of the F-150s being sold. Sorry if it's not macho enough for you, but most of us don't need a gadget to compensate for some other lack.

This is more truck than 75% of truck owners actually need. I beat the crap out of my 2002 Tacoma 5-speed RWD with the smallest 4-banger they sold, far more than almost anyone not in the construction trades, and have no intention of replacing it until the wheels fall off. Even the 150 mile range would be perfectly acceptable for urban users (who aren't brainwashed by the FUD from Detroit).

My dad and I used to go rabbit hunting in the swamps of northern Michigan in his '66 Chevy RWD truck with the 3-speed transmission. More than once we towed out stuck 4WD vehicles and then drove through where they had not been able to go. The driver's ability and experience is far more important.

Rather like copyright fanatic Orin Hatch, whose web site has repeatedly been caught using pirated software.

I'll have to remember that to steal it for another forum I participate in.:-)

It helps extremely insecure people know that their employees are doing something besides browse Craigs List and Bumble all day, at least on the screen that's monitored. This app is for the utterly incompetent manager, of which there is no shortage.

I was coming to post just this. Not only do you have to deliberately set it to Public but there are multiple warnings along the way telling you what you're attempting to do makes it available to the great wide world.

It was going to be a rewrite of the database structure to add the additional fields, and they contracted DB work since they didn't have anyone on staff. They were using some outdated Soviet DB system, which they wanted to replace, so they figured it best to do everything at once.

I did support and installs for a European company which was trying to break into the US market for restaurant point of sale systems. They were able to adjust their program for individual state taxes, but when we informed them that many locations had county, city and even township taxes which would vary from one restaurant to another in the same chain they threw up their hands and gave up. They were planning a major re-write of the program and said they would add those to the new version. I left the company and don't know if they ever bothered, but I have never seen any other installs of RKeeper here in the US so I suspect not.

More like a responsibility.

In other news more countries worldwide are legalizing, or lifting prohibitions on, the much less destructive use of marijuana.

At least he lasted longer than the last pope who actually gave a shit about his parishioners, John Paul I, who was killed after only 33 days in office. I think he took a lesson from John Paul and didn't propose massive changes all at once so didn't frighten the powerful as much.

It's a long and honorable tradition here at SlashDot. With that UID you've also seen, and probably complained about, the theft of a million pounds of maple syrup from the Canadian Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, the purchase of Spanish trains which were too large for the tunnels they had to navigate, and the election (and reelection) of a game show host as US president. Get your complaints ready, there will almost certainly be another non-tech story on the front page in the next day or two.

The US was aligned with Nazis until they invaded France, Time magazine declared Hitler their 'Man Of The Year' and Henry Ford funded pro-Nazi media. Things change, get used to it. Francis spoke out against the neo-Nazi regime's oppression of the Orthodox church in Ukraine, even though it did not benefit his office at all.