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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...
The difficulty is sort of disappointing. Even on the hardest setting, it asked, for example, 9x10 and 9x4.
They had this for mobile phones :/
*me waits for google android*
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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.
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 ;)
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!
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.
i ws gingo to ber the first psot but i cna't fnd het buottosn :(
I've never understood why Western society (and others) glorify the pissup.
Agreed. Then again many here glorify taking drugs.
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.
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!
Isn't that supposed to read as: Google Giggles?
2. e-Bay goggles.
2. Keep your computer in a cabinet or room with a combination lock. (Ever try to open one o' those babies after too many cups of liquid courage?)
3. AOL. (Your email will probably get lost anyway.)
4. Use an email address like v1agera694Ucheap@gmail.com or r0llexxBargains@gmail.com. (Your message will be flagged as spam and never read anyway.)
5. Don't email after more than two drinks. Ever, no matter how innocuous your message may seem.
6. Don't drink more than you can handle, especially on a regular enough basis to need something like this, you moron.
This is a hacked account, for which the owner can not be held responsible.
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.
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.
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
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.
Some may, but don't misinterpret the substantial opposition here to the "War on Drugs" as glorification.
I don't glorify holocaust denial, but people have a right to say, and believe, stupid things.
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"...
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I agree. But because people have a right doesn't mean they should. I'm ambivalent about this thing because if somebody needs restraining perhaps they need another hobby.
Fortunately I have learned the hard way that self restraint is very necessary. It's a sign of the times that people need stuff like this or the other stuff that censors the free exchange of information.
As for free speech, it is unfortunate that the people who actually have something valuable to say restrain themselves to much; while those who are simply full of $#!+ have no restraint at all.
...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.
The goggles! They do nothing!!!
Perhaps getting drunk helped shut down the C side of my brain or something....
.. or perhaps your hands just happened to fall on the parentheses.
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...]
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.