Google stops drunken emails

[positively-negative]

New Gmail feature to prevent users from sending stupid shit whilst shitfaced.

Mankind has just been advanced bigtime!!

[Jon]

hahaa, if that's true it's awesome

[Davoo]

Looks more like a waste of time to me...

[DevourerJay]

At 10/9/08 04:19 AM, positively-negative wrote: New Gmail feature to prevent users from sending stupid shit whilst shitfaced.

Mankind has just been advanced bigtime!!

well, that would take away 5% or my weekly emails...

[SeizureDog]

At 10/9/08 04:34 AM, wreckages wrote: hahaa, if that's true it's awesome

Holy shit, it's legit.

I turned it on :D

[Thracian]

Those would be easy to do even when drunk.

[SeizureDog]

Well, I kinda wish that it had activated just now...

Fucking hell. Isn't 6:37am a bad enough time to send drunken emails?

[Expectrum]

But I can't do those even while sober man, what the fuck? I have to use the calc all the time now?

This feature is racist.

[ZeroAsALimit]

Thank God I don't use Gmail, I can't do sums when I'm sober!

[Black-Ops]

Yeah, I heard about this on Radio 1 today, I think the idea is pretty clever.

They might want to make the sums a bit harder though, you would have to be away with the bloody fairies to get the sums from Seizure-Dog's screenshot wrong.

[NEVR]

So all you have to do is solve a few simple math problems and you're good to go? That's not hard -- for one thing, most people have a calculator on their mobile phones these days, so if you're so shitfaced that you can't do it by mental arithmetic, all you have to do is whip out your phone and use the calculator on that. Granted, accuracy in actually using the device may take much, much longer, but it's doable.

I guess the idea is to just deter drunken people from even bothering with the maths in the first place though. They just see the problems that they have to solve and think "fuck this I'm off to bed". Maybe in that way it would be more of a success... just depends on how determined your average drunk is ;P

[videogamer0810]

At 10/9/08 08:04 AM, NEVR wrote: So all you have to do is solve a few simple math problems and you're good to go?

You have to solve it within a few seconds, so you don't have time to get a calculator, which will only be a problem if you're drunk.

[grumpyjacksa]

darn..... just when i thought i was going to do a good one on my mother-in-law, now they do this........

guess big brother google doesn't appreciate us having some fun now and then

[uyersuyer]

I don't know about you guys, but when I'm drunk, I'm drunk. I can't tell what a number is, let alone figure out how to add two of them together.

[Redleif]

theres one simple solution to this (or should i say prevention)
dont drink

*gasp* outrage!

[El-Duego]

In my opinion, that idea is a giant waste of time hah

[klopatng]

At 10/9/08 09:31 AM, grumpyjacksa wrote: guess big brother google doesn't appreciate us having some fun now and then

Because you can't just disable the feature.

[Sensationalism]

Lol, awesome. Newgrounds needs one, too.

[greenfaerie4]

That's great, now if we could make something to counteract the drunk dialing we'll be all set.