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Google Tries To Stop You From Drunk E-mailing

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post #1
19 October 2008, 10:00 UTC#1
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Advances in technology are pretty awesome. But like they said in Spiderman, “With great power comes the ability to drunkenly alert your ex-girlfriend that you still think about her when you masturbate.” I think that was the quote, I haven’t seen the movie in a while. Anyway, google is trying to stop the drunk e-mailing problem. Wired.com reports:

Google released a useful new Gmail feature yesterday in its labs, which could help prevent the intoxicated from sending embarrassing late-night emails they might regret in the morning.

When activated, the program will force a user to solve a series of math problems before allowing any message to be sent.

My brother is a super bad dyslexic, I can’t wait to put this setting on his gmail and watch him soberly try and access his account. Thank you, google.

I like that google looks out for the common man. I think personally, if I could request, I’d like google to make an application that forces me to answer particle physics equations before I’m allowed to purchase tickets to see an M. Night Shyamalan film.


hahaha, its for real... http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-...-you-later.html
post #3
20 October 2008, 02:08 UTC#3
lol
post #4
20 October 2008, 02:48 UTC#4
That bit about the Shyamalan movies is so true. Alert me when they make that application.
post #5
20 October 2008, 02:57 UTC#5
why sould google care if they send a e-mail they might regret?
its the persons own fault
and I dont think its cool to do math problems before ending an e-mail
im not in school no more
post #6
20 October 2008, 07:18 UTC#6
QUOTE(RyanH @ Oct 20 2008, 03:57 AM) [snapback]515415[/snapback]

why sould google care if they send a e-mail they might regret?
its the persons own fault
and I dont think its cool to do math problems before ending an e-mail
im not in school no more


Then ya can turn it off. Problem solved!
post #7
20 October 2008, 07:20 UTC#7
QUOTE(RyanH @ Oct 20 2008, 11:57 AM) [snapback]515415[/snapback]

Why should Google care if they (who?) send an e-mail that they might regret?
It's the person's own fault.
and I dont think it's cool to do math problems before ending an e-mail.
I'm not in school no any more.

I have concluded that you should indeed go back to school.