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Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>:
> It doesn't help anything if there are more precise
> terms when they're used inconsistently. Somebody will
> have to check and fix this, continuously.

The situation is not as bad as you think, Rik.  I grepped; the Documentation
subtree only has 17 instances of KB, of which about 6 clearly don't need
correcting as they really are referring to disk capacities.  The patch to
fix these references would not be large.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people
against whom gun bans are aimed.  Almost without exception, murderers
are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance
abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence
against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g.,
automobile and gun accidents."
        -- Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime
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