ianwsmith

Gmail's new Mail Goggles

This is amusing. A feature that makes you solve math problems in a certain amount of time before sending mail to stop you from e-mailing while drunk.

It's interesting to ponder the fact that this is basically a wetware-targeted version of hashcash, imposing a computational barrier to sending mail.

I can't help but think that this would be a good way to make people better at math. Turn it on for all e-mail systems everywhere. Make the math problems progressively harder with each e-mail sent throughout the day, resetting every 24 hours.

Might be a good way to increase the overall signal/noise ratio of the internet.