With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
Gb abbreviates gigabit or gigabyte?  What does GB abbreviate?<p>=====================<p>In update:<p>PLEASE stop down voting me for my simple, nice, courteous reminder to the person who wrote the post I replied to.<p>I was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT ignorant of the meanings of Gb versus GB and was NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT asking for a tutorial on the difference.  I am not an ignorant newby on HN knowing too little to be posting here.  Just what I did wrong is beyond all 
obvious criteria.<p>These attacks are personal, based on my user name and some earlier posts of mine?<p>I did NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING wrong.<p>Instead, I was suggesting that maybe the post I responded to was not using Gb versus GB correctly -- MAYBE.  I was trying to be subtle and suggesting that the person just review the meanings of Gb versus GB.  I DO know very, very well the correct, accepted meanings the two abbreviations.<p>So, for trying to be nice, I get attacked?  What kind of hostility is that?<p>MOD, please get involved and correct this.<p>Right, I&#x27;m a newby?  I&#x27;ve published several peer-revewed papers of original research in computer science and artificial intelligence and taught computer science in graduate school at Ohio State University.  I DO know quite a lot of computing.  Early in my career I designed and wrote the software that scheduled the fleet at FedEx and literally saved the company -- pleased the BoD and enabled crucial financing.  My Ph.D. dissertation in engineering was in software.<p>For one of my contributions in artificial intelligence at the IBM Watson lab, I received an award from IBM.  For some other research I did at IBM, I reinvented k-D trees -- a few years earlier, and k-D trees would have been mine.<p>MOD:  I&#x27;ve done NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING wrong, but I&#x27;ve been severely attacked.  The attacks look personal, by paid propagandists attacking me for some old post on some topic the propagandists are paid to fight about.<p>MOD:  Please straighten out these attacks.