Prevent Gmail From Emailing Under the Influence 258
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."
Insensitive! (Score:5, Funny)
I can't do math unless I'd drunk, you insensitive clod!
slashdot needs this (Score:5, Funny)
im so wasted right now
If Only Slashdot had it... (Score:5, Funny)
mods would have more free time. Oh, wait...
Re:Insensitive! (Score:5, Funny)
Can't type unless you'd drunk either, eh?
Very useful .... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd probably be in contact with more people from college and a few exes if I'd had that 10 years ago. ;-)
Cheers
The homemade version (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hurp (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If Only Slashdot had it... (Score:5, Funny)
Informative?? I think the mods need it too....
Mod parent drunk! (Score:4, Funny)
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! [slashdot.org] ;-)
If you make owning a gun a crime... (Score:5, Funny)
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*
stop the discrimination! (Score:5, Funny)
But what if you're a mathematician? There really should be some option to replace it with sports questions.
Re:No substitute for self control (Score:5, Funny)
Mod -1, Buzzkill.
Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
All that effort solving the math problems on time, just to type "You're a dick" and stagger off to bed.
Re:Just tried it. (Score:5, Funny)
Check your font server. I believe its busted.
frist! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Insensitive! (Score:5, Funny)
All that drinking in high school. You should have known. Didn't you ever hear that you can teach goldfish tricks when they're drunk, but they can only remember them when drunk?
THE LAWS OF THE NAVY (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Just tried it. (Score:5, Funny)
Not going to work for me. (Score:5, Funny)
SMTP - CMTP ? (Score:5, Funny)
Complex Mail Transfer Protocol - coming soon!
Re:Just tried it. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Very useful .... (Score:5, Funny)
Why did you have to drag Windows into this discussion? Is this some corollary of Godwin's law that I am unaware of?
Typo? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If Only Slashdot had it... (Score:3, Funny)
Coyote ugly e-mail (Score:1, Funny)
Is that where you wake up to an e-mail so ugly you chew the mouse off?
Re:and google helps you solve them (Score:2, Funny)
Re:stop the discrimination! (Score:3, Funny)
But what if you're a mathematician? There really should be some option to replace it with sports questions.
There's a difficulty level. Presumably, mathematicians can crank it to 10 and get questions like "For a^n + b^n = c^n and n > 2, show that there are no solutions for a, b and c. (Show your working in this margin.)"
Re:Turn it off only when sober? (Score:1, Funny)
Like the time I disabled the "Use Condom" setting. Man that was itchy...
Re:and google helps you solve them (Score:5, Funny)
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...
Re:Insensitive! (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me about one exam in Uni, which, interestingly, ended up sort of like that...some heavy math exam next day, heavy drinking party developed in front of my room (it was in a good place for such things, end of the corridor with sofa/etc.). Though they realised I'm learning when trying to get me out of the room, so kept quiet. Nonetheless, somebody managed to get me out "just one shot" (of vodka, might I add). And we all know how such things end...
Interestingly, even though I was basically late few minutes, no math exam before and after was passed by me so flawlessly...
Re:No substitute for self control (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed. Then again many here glorify taking drugs.
That's because taking drugs is glorious!
Not just a funny (Score:2, Funny)
But that's LISP for you. Perhaps getting drunk helped shut down the C side of my brain or something....
I've planned on making my house do this (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Probably not a good idea (Score:4, Funny)
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.
I wish they had this on.. (Score:3, Funny)
Please ignore the last post (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No substitute for self control (Score:2, Funny)
I'm tripping balls! And its GLORIOUS!
Re:No substitute for self control (Score:3, Funny)
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.
How will it know when I am horny? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:If you make owning a gun a crime... (Score:2, Funny)
24+3? That's approximately 24, I guess.
Actually, it's 10 as an order of magnitude calculation. Of course I'm drunk right now, so I could be off a bit.
Chaos math (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Insensitive! (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of a Maple mid term I had way back when as an undergraduate.
10 minutes after the start, one of the class arrives late and proceeds to sit down in front of his PC. The examiner hands him the question sheet. He settles in. He was obviously a bit tipsy, and there was a not so faint smell of alcohol, particularly as he spoke. After a few minutes, we had something similar to the following exchange:
Him: (whisper) Hey man. How'd you turn on Maple again?
Me: Start. Programs. Math Software. Maple.
Him: Cheers man.
A few minutes later....
Him: Hey man. Sorry, but, are we supposed to answer ALL the questions on this sheet?
Me: Just four out of five.(or whatever the requirements were)
Him: Aww right! Cheers man.
A few minutes after that....
Him: Hey man. Sorry, again, but... Is this a test?
If I remember correctly, he got an A. Great guy.
Re:stop the discrimination! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hurp (Score:5, Funny)
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"...
But I am a Mathemetician!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not just a funny (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:hurp (Score:5, Funny)
HEY!
I derive better when I'm drunk!
I'll be surprised if nobody else has said this... (Score:4, Funny)
[Looks at stack of Atari 800 program cassettes that he has nothing on which to run them...]
10 bucks says..... (Score:1, Funny)
that 5 minutes after Vista ships with that enabled hear about a proof of rzh
Re:hurp (Score:4, Funny)
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?
Re:hurp (Score:2, Funny)
Then I assume you HAVE chopped up your neighbour with an axe because it seemed like a fun thing to do?
Re:hurp (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory xkcd (Score:2, Funny)