The &quot;kilo&quot;, &quot;mega&quot;, and &quot;giga&quot; prefixes are part of the SI system of units. They have been around far longer than computers, and are all defined in terms of base 10. A &quot;megawatt&quot; is one million Watts, and has been for over a century. These units don&#x27;t belong to the computer industry, and computer people can&#x27;t define them to mean something else just because &quot;byte&quot; is the next word.<p>If you want to insist that 1KB is 1024 bytes, then you aren&#x27;t talking about real &quot;kilos&quot;, you are talking about fake, computer-nerd &quot;kilos&quot;. Stealing these units was wrong, and should have never happened in the first place. The SI isn&#x27;t being moronic in introducing KiB, MiB, and friends, it&#x27;s just asking us to return what we&#x27;ve stolen.