Mail Goggles, available at Google Labs, tries to prevent drunk e-mailing by posing a few simple math problems that must be answered within a number of seconds before the message can be sent through Google's Web mail service, Gmail.
This reminds me of my flaming youth, when I had a personal test to decide whether I was drunk: I had to recall the double angle formula for sine. Do you think Google would use this test?
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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What's the double angle for sine? Is it like the Wronskian? (Powww!)
FYI: sin(2x)=2sin(x)cos(x). If you knew that, you could make 125 K in NYC.
After visiting the school’s Web site and reading a New York Times article about the school, I realized it was not only legit, but potentially revolutionary in terms of education reform.
You need more than sine double. You need double cynicism. I'm ready though.
125 K for teaching kids how to add and multiply doesn't sound bad to me. And Washington Heights has some pretty nice areas. You guys ever been to the Cloisters?
Nope. Cloisterfuck?
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