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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."
All this means is that people will phone or sms or worse, show up drunk on their ex's door more often (perhaps even drive there). Sure it's a lot easier to send a drunken email than go see someone in person so that'll stop some of it but the reality is if you're a serial drunk, you need to get some help. Nothing else is going to fix it.
I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
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Have you tried it while drunk?
If you're not sober enough to do the math, perhaps you're sober enough to copy/paste them into google so it can give you the answers ;)
I'm sure they thought this through and also require answering a math question for turning the app off?
Would end Web 2.0????
Excellent. Please implement at once. While you're at it persuade the media and public at large to accept that 'the web' != 'the internet' ('the web' 'the internet')
--- Users are like bacteria -> Each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally gives up and dies.
I am a mathematician and you sir are insulting the abilities of drunk lemurs. I personally worry that I would never send any e-mail if I had to answer arithmetic or sports questions.
What they should do for us is to add the option of deep philosophical questions. I would happily give a brief answer while sober, but if I were drunk I would be so distracted that I would be sober by the time I finished formulating my answer.
...to gather drunkard statistics. I bet you'll see a lot more alcohol related google ads after failing a few of those tests.
A better thing would be, NOT to tell you you were wrong but to pretend to send the mail and then notify you few hours after (when you are PROBABLY sober) about your failure.
$\int_1^9x\,dx$
Sorry, but what does being able to answer 9x10 and 9x4 have to do with intelligence? Just a matter of practicing enough to know a number of basic multiplications and divisions by heart at some point.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Please, people! Could you quit calling it mathematics? I've looked at the site, and it offers you some basic arithmetic questions. I can do those after ~15 shots of whiskey and a doobie or two. And I suck at Maths.
When I read "mathematics", I think it would be more interesting if Google put some problems where you have to integrate functions with more than three variables, or differentiate functions or some such.
This is insane. I get the humour of all this, but if such a service actually exists, that suggests there are people who really do need this. How can such people exist?
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
How about this: don't get drunk, don't use drugs. Side effects include, but are not limited to:
- sending stupid emails you will later regret
- driving right into the next tree
- chopping up your neighbor with an axe because it seems like a fun thing to do
- nausea, headaches and a general crappy existence
Don't underestimate no. 4, it's a real killer.
That's not funny, don't drink and derive.
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