Actually, quite a clever idea to ensure you don’t go out with the gang on Friday and come home and zap that nasty email to your boss, telling him what an asshole he is and…
Cleverly called Goggle instead of Google, it is a new (optional) feature that asks you some basic math questions to be answered in a short time period. They figure if you can’t do them in the required time, perhaps sending emails isn’t a wise idea either.
Good thing we don’t have that on the SDMB, or there would be nothing to read on the weekends here.
I just activated it and tried emailing myself on the highest difficulty level. It took me 4 tries to get all the math questions right in the allotted time, and I’m completely sober! Now, when am I most likely to be in post-chick flick depression…?
I’d just use a calculator. I used to be really bad about drunk emailing and dammit, I’d be determined to fire that embarrassing missive off right then, no matter what. No math problems would have stopped me.
For various reasons, I do not drink anymore. Ever.
I’ve heard of it. IIRC, there’s an applet that lets you block originating outgoing communication to certain numbers between 10PM and 9AM on Friday and Saturday nights (or whatever time period you specify). You can’t take a number off the list during those times. Sure, you can disable it, but if you’re sober enough to do that, you’re sober enough to send the message!
I took a look at the example in the linked article. If I was drunk enough that I couldn’t answer those five questions correctly in 43 seconds, I doubt I could sit up and type an email anyway.
Yes, levels 1-5. The level 5 problems were still simple arithmetic, but numbers that I would have preferred to figure on paper if I were, say, balancing a checkbook.