Posts by strangetpwn

Reg readers crack case of the $23 quadrillion overcharge

Not just a display issue

@Anonymous Coward who is "normally right about these things"

The cards are also being charged a negative balance fee, so it's not just a display issue. The figure was in the banking system and was being deducted from the previous account balance.

Hacker unearths young Chinese gymnast scam

Cultural differences

In Taiwan and China most people count a child's age starting from 1 not 0. So a newborn child is considered 1 year's old, and someone born on March 1, 1978 will tell you they are 31, at the time of typing this.

More traditionalists go even further and will increment ages on the passing of the new year (based on the Lunar calendar) and not birth date. For a year when Chinese New Year's day falls on Feb 1, a child born Jan 31 would be already considered 2 year's old on Feb 2.

So you see it's just cultural differences. The girls are all 16, the rest of the world is just counting wrong.

Also since when did people using search engines to find stuff become "hackers"? Seriously now, WTF?

Who will be the next Doctor?

Regeneration cliffhanger, who cares?

I am I the only one who'll be watching this Saturday hoping they'll explain WTF happened to Billie Piper's teeth?