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Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()?

I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android 4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method:

public boolean isUserAGoat()
Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations.

Returns whether the user making this call is a goat.

How and when should this be used?

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This appears to be an inside joke at Google. It's also featured in the Google Chrome task manager. It has no purpose, other than some engineers finding it amusing. Which is a purpose by itself, if you will.

1. In Chrome, open the Task Manager with <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Esc</kbd>. 
2. Right click to add the  `Goats Teleported` column.
3. Wonder.

There is even a huge Chromium bug report about [too many teleported goats][1].

![chrome][2]  

The following Chromium [source code snippet][3] is stolen from the [HN][4] comments.


    int TaskManagerModel::GetGoatsTeleported(int index) const {
      int seed = goat_salt_ * (index + 1);
      return (seed >> 16) & 255;
    }

  [1]: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31482
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/1nwdC.png
  [3]: http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=blob;f=chrome/browser/task_manager/task_manager.cc;h=ad46354259ec8687c8665820f9f53bf89ccc715d;hb=HEAD#l599
  [4]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4782574

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Windows XP + latest Chrome = it isn't there, on Ubuntu I see it.

auselen
– auselen

2012-11-14 09:47:29 +00:00
Commented Nov 14, 2012 at 9:47
This column is no longer available on Ubuntu either.

Jakob Buis
– Jakob Buis

2025-05-29 10:56:00 +00:00
Commented May 29 at 10:56

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Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()?

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