They may care when they figure out that the first meaning is nearly 1000 times bigger... I know you probably know the difference but why not check your numbers?

I always presumed that hard drive manufacturers used base-10 because it gives an extra 7% to report when you are doing drives in the giga byte range. A little annoying but not surprising.

What is confusing is the wild randomness in kb, kB, Kb, and KB even in a good fraction of the posts above. For this reason alone it makes sense to state what you mean, and if you are going to make that move the only sane choice is to leave k=1000 and find something else for 1024...

I've always filed the original forms of both these aggressive updaters under malware anyway...