GMail Goggles: don’t send embarrassing emails
The forward-thinking folks at Google have implemented a novel solution to prevent regretful drunken digital correspondence to friends, family, co-workers, and loved ones. Gmail engineer Jon Perlow is introducing Mail Googles, a new feature that will tease the bean before ill-conceived late night and weekend emails can be sent out. Mail Goggles are presently available in the Labs tab on Gmail settings. Once activated, users can select the days and times when they’re most likely to be recreating in a fashion unsuitable for CC’ing the entire office.
Default settings are the tender hours between 10 PM and 4 AM on Fridays and Saturday. Before an ill-conceived email is allowed to make its rounds, Mail Goggles offers the constitution a checkup by asking a series of math problems that must be solved in 60 seconds. Several levels of difficulty are available for drunken savants. To activate Mail Goggles, go into Gmail’s settings, and turn on Mail Goggles in the “Labs” tab. Then adjust how and when it works in the “General” tab.
Source: Cnet, Register
HOW POINTLESS
Is this a make-sure-not-to-send-naked-pics-of-yourself-to-mom protection?
not a bad concept i spose. my mate cudda done with this last year when he was declaring his love for this girl n sent the email to his entire adress book. was soo funny.
Stupid americans
oh wait…
mhhh maybe rlslog should use more challenging tasks as spam protection too =)
Great idea, but it would be more useful on a cellphone.
how about people just grow up and learn some tact in writing emails.. instead of asking google to do it for them
^
true. ppl always want exuse and someone who’ll cover their asses.
oh snap, this means marceli can no longer use gmail…
Need that for my phone…
Err yeah. Except that these “math problems” won’t be a problem drunk either :/
They’re just having fun with the idea, making Google seem like a down-to-earth cool company. I don’t think they actually think it is useful.
For the one who didn’t got this feature is available on Labs and they are features done by google developers on their spare time…
what if you generally really suck at maths?
Gotta love Google for even the little things
it was supposed to be a joke
Garbage!
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This feature would be nice an cellphone and Skype
It would be even better to have something like this in your head when you are speaking in heavy drunken state.
Russell Crowe could have done with one of these before he went on the tonight show. He would have needed: 300,000,000×1,000,000 & 700,000,000,000/300,000,000
I think it’s a great idea. I’ve sent all sorts of drunken emails that I’ve regretted. The level 5 math isn’t that hard though, even when drunk.
Hmm… so we are competing with articles on lifehacker now?
i’m no good at maths
How fcking lame…
Who sits and writes e-mails when drunk ???
Totally Lame !!!
how stupid is that? i have never written an email when i was drunk. also, i could solve this math while being on lsd and having had 20 beers.
I even had problems there with the Spam Protection Sum of 7 & 9, took me a few seconds and I’m stone cold sober.
What a load of cr*p, you could just switch the function off when drunk and send it anyway. Useless :o)