> I've always felt the little "based on 1GB = 1000000000 bytes" footnote
> is saying "we know we're being deliberately deceptive and we're going
> to keep right on doing it anyway" and should be treated like any other
> deliberately deceptive advertising.

It could be worse.  Twenty years ago they were counting sector formatting
and interrecord gaps in capacity.  Actually being able to STORE one billion
bytes on a "1GB" disk is an *improvement* from what they used to specify...