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Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence
mikesd81 writes "Google has developed 'Mail Goggles,' a Gmail add-on that makes sending email from Gmail more difficult during certain times (which you can set). If you have Mail Goggles installed, it will force you to answer a series of math questions before sending out any new messages. You can adjust the math difficulty and times this option is in effect. If you get any of the questions wrong, Mail Goggles will say, 'Water and bed for you. Or try again.' Of course, if you set the math settings too high, you may have a tough time solving some of those problems in under 60 seconds, even when sober. Then again, if you're sober, you could just turn Mail Goggles off and hit send on that impassioned letter to your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend or that flame to your boss."
I can't do math unless I'd drunk, you insensitive clod!
im so wasted right now
mods would have more free time. Oh, wait...
I'd probably be in contact with more people from college and a few exes if I'd had that 10 years ago. ;-)
Cheers
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
For those of us who use mutt with gmail: Just install twenty or so different editors and then set up a script so mutt will chose a random editor each time you start it. Leave ee, ed, nano, and pico plus your usual editor out of the script. That might work, if you really need this service. At least for a few days, at which point you've learned every editor. Then I guess you're back to square one.
Caveat Utilitor
This sounds familiar... "You are trying to send an email, Allow/Deny" But when you "geekify" it (add some maths), it makes it acceptable. Maybe if this is popular enough, we'll see it in the next version of Windows? Can't wait!
Do Obama and the Democrats deserve a lift in the polls...
Perhaps the best use for such a measure here on Slashdot would be preventing posting from another story! ;-)
I'm reminded of the old saying, "If you make owning a gun a crime, only criminals will own guns."
If you hide drunk mailing behind math problems, only Engineers will drunk mail.
*shudders*
But what if you're a mathematician? There really should be some option to replace it with sports questions.
Mod -1, Buzzkill.
All that effort solving the math problems on time, just to type "You're a dick" and stagger off to bed.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Check your font server. I believe its busted.
i ws gingo to ber the first psot but i cna't fnd het buottosn :(
Dost think in a moment of anger
'Tis well with thy seniors to fight?
They prosper, who burn in the morning,
The letters they wrote overnight.
90 and 46, and I'm currently drunk. Didn't take the time though
I used to do the most difficult math proofs while drunk, just to mess with the other math majors heads. Its actually easier in a way. If I know it sober, I know it drunk. They should just scan the email for references to your mom jokes. If it doesn't have one, I'm probably drunk and forgot to include it.
Complex Mail Transfer Protocol - coming soon!
Uhh...9x4=36, not 46.
Apparently, it does work, assuming you're telling the truth about being drunk, and aren't just bad at math.
my pet machine
Isn't that supposed to read as: Google Giggles?
Is that where you wake up to an e-mail so ugly you chew the mouse off?
Because your calculator can't do this.
Like the time I disabled the "Use Condom" setting. Man that was itchy...
Aside from the inherent unreliability with internet connections
Good point! With this method, if your internet goes down you wouldn't be able to finish the math problem required to send an email message via your web-based email service.
Wait for it...
Agreed. Then again many here glorify taking drugs.
That's because taking drugs is glorious!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
But that's LISP for you. Perhaps getting drunk helped shut down the C side of my brain or something....
Engineering is the art of compromise.
For a long time, my plan has been to build something like this into my house. When I want to adjust my thermostat, for example, I want the house to give me a quick little test to see if I'm mentally alert. Regardless of the outcome, the house would then let me adjust the thermostat.
However, it would remember the results. And if it determines over a long period (say, a couple months), that I'm suffering significant mental degradation, to the point where I'm likely to not be able to take care of myself, the house will wait until I'm sound asleep one night (which it can determine by monitoring my temperature with infrared sensors, and listening to my respiration, for example), and then do something to kill me in my sleep (gas, probably).
When the house is sure that I'm dead (no breathing for a long time, and body temperature down to ambient room temperature), it will then call the coroner's office to report my death.
With the end of year approaching it's reasonably likely that the frequency and severity of alcohol consumption will steadily increase for the next few months.
Your house might interpret your state as a physical and mental decline rather than a mere seasonal variation and bump you off early on the first of January.
Of course when you wake up with that hang over you might wish it had, however it's only a short term feeling and you'll forget about it in time, certainly by the following New Years Day.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
I wish they had this on Sloshhhhhdot. (my boss is an idiot)
Please ignore the last post. I really, really didn't mean it. I'm so sorry that I wrote that about my boss. So sorry. He is a wonderful, wonderful person. I am crying into my beer thinking about how I could have written that. I really really love him............. zzzZZZZZZZ
I'm tripping balls! And its GLORIOUS!
That's 'cos you're a square. Like a cube, man!
I'll take square over sloshed any day. I don't enjoy the taste of alcohol. In fact I don't enjoy a thing about it. There are plenty of things I do enjoy. Like the irony of a bloke who calls a slashdotter a square.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Just imagine how context sensitive the ads will be if they know you are drunk and horny!
Winkey shortcut mapping for 64bit windows. WinKeyPlus
Assume that 9 and 4 aren't just numbers but place holders for chickens and the "X" means crossing as in there are 9 Hens and 4 Roosters that you cross. In order to determine the number you have to factor in time as in at present the total it 13 but in six months the total number of chickens might be 46. The problem is based on time and other factors like disease and early death the total number could easily range from 0 to 100 over the next six months and range into the thousands over a period of years. Without knowing more details 46 may be an accurate answer but other factors like time, egg rate and fertility rates and survival rates need to be added to generate an accurate number. Then again it might be easier to just drink another beer and stop stressing about math so you can send a picture of your ass to the girl that just dumped you.
Maybe if this is popular enough, we'll see it in the next version of Windows? Can't wait!
I don't like the idea of where that might go. "It looks as if you are trying to uninstall Vista. Please prove the Riemann Zeta Hypothesis"...
Quidnam Latine loqui modo coepi?
The goggles! They do nothing!!!
HEY!
I derive better when I'm drunk!
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But I'd rather see this feature on eBay.
[Looks at stack of Atari 800 program cassettes that he has nothing on which to run them...]
that 5 minutes after Vista ships with that enabled hear about a proof of rzh
Maybe if this is popular enough, we'll see it in the next version of Windows? Can't wait!
I don't like the idea of where that might go. "It looks as if you are trying to uninstall Vista. Please prove the Riemann Zeta Hypothesis"...
Hey, it's working for the ReCAPTCHA initiative, so why not get a few unsolved mathematical problems solved in the process?
Then I assume you HAVE chopped up your neighbour with an axe because it seemed like a fun thing to do?
http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/
Reminds me of this.
http://xkcd.com/323/