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Drive a Greasecar - DIY Biodiesel
TinyTim writes "Sure, you could buy expensive biodiesel for you car - or you can hack your diesel to run on filtered vegetable oil. Kits take a few hours to install and cost about $800, but you can get your fuel free from restaurant deep-fryers (the filters are ~$10/2000mi). Supposedly no loss of performance or mileage, and you can change between diesel and veggie oil with the flick of a switch. A previous article mentioned the theoretical possibility, but it looks like kits are now available from greasecar.com."
My grase stockpile will finnaly pay off! WOOHOO! IT'S YELLOW GOLD!
- Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos!
Yeah, that's another thing that is really annoying.I hate it when I've just typed up a well-crafted, informative post which probably involved a few minutes of research on google, etc. and I go to post just to get the "You have been banned
At least if your ISP has been banned from posting they should put a notification at the top of each page to save you the trouble of writing comments.
It's annoying things like these that make it really frustrating for those of us who just want to use Slashdot, not abuse it!
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the first rule of fight club is don't drop the soap
okay, that was stupid, but i'm hitting submit anyway
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
- Get the IPs off of all the troll postings.
- Track down the people who did abuse the system and sell the contact info so people can let Johnny's parents/spouse/offspring/place of employment know what he's been posting lately.
- PROFIT! And beatings and divorces and life-long trauma and firings....
Ahhh, perchance to dream.I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie