Have they attached the inductor any better since his video? Enquiring minds...

He did eventually fix it up and it still works. It appears in some later videos, eg. this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

PS: I scored one of those on eBay after I watched that. Cost me $80 but still a pretty good buy. It still has the "US Army" sticker on it complete with last calibration date (Feb 2011). There's not a mark on either the meter or the carrying case and the probes were brand new in plastic bag. I reckon it never left stores... "beauty!"

There's people in Guantanamo whose only crime is to wear one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Fluke multimeters...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Hardest working"?

Neither do the onshore ones...

Wouldn't it be better on the sea bed? Also tsunami-proof...but also rogue-wave, aircraft and tanker proof.

Even better. Don't build any more reactors than can go into meltdown.

You COULD prevent millions of people from being able to do their job, ... or ... just turn off the heartbeat feature.

(And set up a honeypot it its place to catch the bad people)

IMEI can be changed. It's usually just a file on a special partition.

Yep. They're the "experts". Just tell them the Microsoft KB number, that's all the information they need.

In what universe?

For the last two years every toddler-owner I meet is incredibly proud that their 2-year old knows how to swipe (and they keep reminding everybody in sight).

"Oh, you should see him use the iPhone!".

Either of those would make you stand out in a job interview alongside a bunch of people who only know how to swipe.

Then there's the customer surveys that ask people if they'd like to see more salads and healthy foods in McDonalds.

Of course they'd like to SEE it...but that's not why they go to McDonalds.

Pity you never bothered to find out who said it or in what context...

I think 1996 just called and wants it's Usenet flamewar back.

UTF8 is great for storing data in files, but ... working with strings in memory? Insanity will follow.