In California, you have to pay first. It's been that way for 20 years.
In Oregon, many stations are switching to pre-pay only.
When I pull up, I say "fill regular cash". If they say "how much do you want", I say "fill regular cash". If they say "how much do you want" or "give me money", I either say "I'll take five dollar's worth and go somewhere else for the rest", or I just go somewhere else for all of it. I'm not going to play a guessing game for how much gas it will take to fill my tank today, and I'm not wasting time stopping at a station more than I have to. They've just lost a sale, and any future sales I might have made.
If the station does not trust me to pay for what they actually provide, I don't trust them to provide the amount they said they did. The cops will happily deal with the former, if it becomes a problem, but I would have a hard time proving they fiddled with the pumps since the last state inspection.
Note that self-service with a credit-card reader isn't really pre-pay since you aren't charged until the gas is pumped, and you aren't buying a fixed amount, you're still able to fill 'er up, whatever that takes.
I don't think so. If everyone went to the bank and asked to withdraw all accounts, banks would not have the physical assets to do so.
Banks are required to keep at least a specific percentage of their deposits on hand to deal with withdrawals. For the rest, they'll tell you to come back tomorrow or the day after and they'll be ordering what they need from either another branch or the Federal Reserve. In either case, there is a physical object that you can get for that digital ledger entry, you just might not be able to get it the moment you demand it. If you look carefully, you'll note that your bank probably has a clause in their terms of service that tell you a time and quantity limit on taking your money out as cash.
See here, or here. It is called "fractional reserve".
If the government genuinely wants to stop the amount of uninsured drivers on the road, it should cap ludicrous insurance premiums.
What happens when the payouts from the insurance companies exceed the allowed premiums? Either the insurance companies cover less and less for the same money (your liability coverage is now $1 per accident) or go away (your liability coverage is now $0 per accident). Better would be a cap on lawsuit awards, and somehow eliminating the collusion that results in the repair estimates being exactly what the insurance company will pay.
If you want to get people into public transport, make it less shit.
Wait a 'mo. You Europeans are the ones our public transit zealots keep pointing at when they say "we could have a really good system like them and then ban cars from...". Are you saying your public transport isn't that good? I hate to tell you, it's tons better than where I live, and we still have people saying things like "you can take the bus so you should stop driving."
If you include a very clear disclaimer on the bill, any case should be thrown out by the courts because it will be obvious there is no intent to pass off your copy as the real deal.
Except that by sending the copy to **AA as "legal tender" and trying to pay for your copy of digital content with it, you are unambiguously showing an intent to pass off the copy as real.
There was (is?) a guy who hand-draws copies of paper money and uses them to pay for things. He has to be very clear up-front with anyone he deals with, "this is a piece of artwork that I am selling you, if you want to buy it", and then he can use that money to pay for his stuff. If he simply handed it over in exchange for goods he'd be counterfeiting. It doesn't matter how bad the copy is (and his were pretty good), it is still counterfeiting if you try to pass a copy as real.
It's not the goal because nobody ever thinks of the long term effects of the system we have versus the system we could have.
Actually having that system is, unfortunately, not a unilateral decision on the part of society. What that means is that the criminal has to want to rehabilitate before we can have a system that rehabilitates people.
You can't force someone to rehabilitate who doesn't want to, just like you can't force someone who doesn't want to "wage peace" to do so.
"Asshole"? Really? My limited understanding is that he is an innocent person until found otherwise, no?
No. He's either guilty or not. He cannot be innocent today and then guilty tomorrow for something he did last week.
The legal system is required to treat him as not until proven otherwise. That, however, does NOT mean that the legal system cannot get a search warrant to obtain evidence that can be used in a court to allow the court to make that determination, so even the claim "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't apply here.
As for how the rest of the world treats him, we have no limits on calling him guilty because we aren't the legal system.
This question is based on an absurd assumption. Why would you need to unprint everything? If you have no use for your junk mail just recycle it. Same as always.
The absurd question is why would you want to unprint anything? If you've already got to deal with recycling junk mail that is printed using any of a number of different processes that aren't laser printing, why not just throw in the laser printed sheets?
Taking the same bit of paper and running it through a unprinter for 20 seconds and then reuse. Energy wise I don't think there will be any contest,
Cost of making laser. Cost of maintenance on unprinter to keep the optical system aligned. Cost of "that unprinted paper looks like crap, I want this document reprinted on fresh paper". Cost of recycling entire unprinter when it wears out. Cost of eyepatches for office staff that try to unjam the unprinter. Cost of disability payments to retired office staff who tried to unjam it twice. Cost of fire department that shows up when someone tries to unprint an inkjet page and paper bursts into flame. Cost of disposing of unprinted toner (you can't just let the vapor out into the room, you know.)
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The standard printer colors are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. CMYK. CRT/LCD colors are RGB -- red, green, blue.
The standard laser printer does not put a charge on paper, it puts a charge on a transfer roller that then transfers the toner to the paper. That toner is then melted onto the paper.
Kodak (and others), used to make dye sublimation printers, where a sheet of plastic with dye on it was whacked with a laser to sublimate the dye directly onto the paper. This had the advantage of being something more than the typical "yes/no" "is there toner there" question, and thus resulted in much better color reproductions. No dithering was required. The major downside, besides cost of supplies, was that you were left with a negative image on the dye sheet, just like the old plastic film typewriters had.
This system sounds like an incredibly wasteful and complicated process. You have to scan the paper to determine where there is toner and sublimate only those spots. If you miss by just that much, you'll char the paper and miss toner. If you put in a sheet of inkjet-printed paper, you'll burn the paper anyway.
Making/recycling paper isn't that hard. This is silly.
That would explain why a cop claimed he measured me at 91,
Yes, a failure to calibrate the breathalyzer would explain this.
even though my cruise control had been set to 79 (plus four over the speed limit).
If you are going to rely on your cruise control, you should be aware that they don't always keep you from going faster than they are set. They will try to accellerate if the car starts to slow, but I don't know of any of them that will put on the brakes if you are going too fast.
You can easily override the speed by resting your foot on the accellerator. The one in my car actually does worse at controlling speed going downhill than just letting the car control itself. I.e., cruise control on, downhill, I can pick up 20MPH, but with it off, the natural engine braking keeps me close to speed.
His equipment was probably not calibrated and giving false readings.
If you are ever stopped for a radar violation, ask to see the equipment calibrated in front of you. It's really easy to do, all they do is hold a tuning fork in front of the antenna. If they refuse, then you have good grounds to claim failure to calibrate as required.
It's quite easy to copy the text of printed books with absolute fdelity.
Quite untrue. Each copy of a printed book is degraded by the noise added in the process. While there may be "no letters between A and B", what is copied are not "letters", but analog representations of such. Even modern "digital" copiers are only making a temporary digital image of the analog page they are copying, and then recreating an analog page as the output. Their goal is, for some level of resolution, to copy the analog reflectance (and color, for color copiers) of each point on the input to the output. Color copiers have the built-in limitation that they can't have "absolute fidelity" unless the input color can be perfectly represented by a linear sum of the toner colors available. A simple thought experiment shows how easy it is to fail -- try copying something that consists of a single wavelength in the green region. Since there is no green toner, you can only get an approximation.
Try it sometime. Find yourself a copy machine and try taking one page of a book and copying it. Then copy the copy. Keep doing that. Depending on the quality of your copy machine, it won't be very long before the analog nature of what you are doing will become apparent.
Then, of course, you need to realize that "books" are not just assemblages of "letters", but often contain pictures and other analog representations of reality.
If it was "quite easy" to have "absolute fidelity", everyone would be doing it.
It's a neat bit of physics, and will probably have implications for device efficiency and other applications.
It's the solution for global warming.
Take a large bank of these over-efficient LEDs. Shine them on a solar panel. Power the LEDs from the solar panel output. Everything in the vicinity of the LEDs gets cold. Make lots of these. Problem solved.
If it seems like a perpetual motion system, it probably is. If you've got a 230% efficient LED, then you can have a 50% efficient solar panel and still come out ahead.
The only problem is what to do with all the excess electricity these things will produce.
Really? So all those DRM-free books I've been buying in multiple formats from Fictionwise are... ummm. Huh?
which means that I may use them as long as the publisher lets me in ways they like (which they may change at any time they like), or as long as the publisher or some unrelated third party who happens to own them at the time doesn't mismanage its finances and disappear.
Dell Magazines is going to have a real hard time finding all the copies of the magazines I've "licensed" from them should they ever go out of business and want to stop me from reading them, much less just change their mind about my being able to read them.
If you are paying money to people who can take things back from you at their whim, that's your problem.
But yeah, it would sure be nice to be able to buy e-books.
Yes, it is. On the other hand, there are so many free ones available, why do you need to buy any at all?
What could more ephemeral than a thin layer of rust with some magnetic fields recorded on it?
A thin layer of organic material with small amounts of organic material deposited on the surface.
I don't see any "thin layer of rust" in the flash chip that is currently storing one copy of Foundation I own, nor the USB stick that has another copy. There might be a "thin layer of rust" in the hard disk that stores a couple more copies, and the backups.
Tried making a backup of a physical book lately? I can back my "ephemeral rust" copies of books up at about 100 per minute (not 100 pages per minute, 100 books per) on a whim and without getting out of my chair.
Paper can last thousands of years if cared for.
"If cared for", when talking about paper, means initial printing on acid-free paper, and then storage of the material in an environmentally controlled facility. It does not include "reading", and certainly not "carry on the train to read while commuting".
Let me know when e-anything looks like it will archive that well.
Every ebook that I carry on a daily basis has survived for the last several years of doing so, while there are few, if any, paper books that have survived that kind of use. I'd say e-anything looks pretty good compared to paper when one is actually using the products and not just trying to keep an archive of comic books for one's great grandchildren to look at through the plastic bags.
I didn't say they were. What I said is that the existance of a "sufficiently advanced technology" doesn't prove that diamonds cannot be produced in any other way. Diamonds are an example not because I think they are produced by "magic", but because the technological source doesn't prove anything about any other source in such an obvious way that I didn't think I'd have to answer ridiculous claims that I thought they were all magic.
This is old news. When I was at Deltares a couple of years ago, they had three or four mating pairs of Majorana Fermions swimming in the pool near their main offices. I don't think they were spotted, though. They were speckled.
That's pretty close to TU Delft, so maybe the ones TU Delft has found are one of the pairs from Deltares?
At least I THINK that's what the Dutch speaking guide called them.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But it is not magic.
Moral of the story?
There is no such thing as magic.
"All A is B" does not prove "All B is A".
The fact that you might find some advanced technology that will allow you to turn water into wine doesn't mean that when I do it it isn't magic, only that when YOU do it it isn't. Magic is the process, not the end result.
There is currently technology that will take elemental carbon and produce diamonds in the laboratory. That doesn't mean that every diamond on the planet was produced in a laboratory.
How can I have the freedom to redistribute my software at no cost (which is one of the freedoms you have with free software) if I have to pay royalties to some standards body in order to do so,...
How can you have freedom to distribute software that violates the IP of someone else under GPL to start with? What does whether the royalty you'd have to pay to use it is fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory or not have to do with it? What does FRAND cost you that not having FRAND saves you?
Among other things, leaving the UK is a lot easier and faster than leaving the USA.
And the UK has how many nukes? Three? Four? The US has at least a dozen, and all that security would simply bankrupt us. The medical insurance coverage for the number of truck drivers would be astronomical.
As to "trading spectrum with the DoD" - holy crap what morons. Sorry, when you're talking about a complete network of satellites, the costs of throwing away that network and building a new one are astronomical.
nobody suggested throwing any satellites away.
The band lightsquared is in now is not IN the GPS band, it is just so close that it interferes, and only because they want to do high-powered stuff there.
The neighborhood should have been guarded so that nobody could use it, but that would have taken the ability to predict the ubiquitous nature of today's GPS systems. I think if someone had said, back in the early days of GPS, that every cell phone would have a GPS receiver in it, they'd have looked at you like you had two heads.
If DOD has some other bandwidth that is doing similar low-powered stuff, then it probably wouldn't be too hard to swap. This is the same kind of thing that happened when Nextel got spectrum near the public safety bands up around 800 MHz and started causing all kinds of interference. Spectrum was swapped and yes, it has cost a bundle of money to move all the public safety people, but it solved a problem.
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In California, you have to pay first. It's been that way for 20 years.
In Oregon, many stations are switching to pre-pay only.
When I pull up, I say "fill regular cash". If they say "how much do you want", I say "fill regular cash". If they say "how much do you want" or "give me money", I either say "I'll take five dollar's worth and go somewhere else for the rest", or I just go somewhere else for all of it. I'm not going to play a guessing game for how much gas it will take to fill my tank today, and I'm not wasting time stopping at a station more than I have to. They've just lost a sale, and any future sales I might have made.
If the station does not trust me to pay for what they actually provide, I don't trust them to provide the amount they said they did. The cops will happily deal with the former, if it becomes a problem, but I would have a hard time proving they fiddled with the pumps since the last state inspection.
Note that self-service with a credit-card reader isn't really pre-pay since you aren't charged until the gas is pumped, and you aren't buying a fixed amount, you're still able to fill 'er up, whatever that takes.
I don't think so. If everyone went to the bank and asked to withdraw all accounts, banks would not have the physical assets to do so.
Banks are required to keep at least a specific percentage of their deposits on hand to deal with withdrawals. For the rest, they'll tell you to come back tomorrow or the day after and they'll be ordering what they need from either another branch or the Federal Reserve. In either case, there is a physical object that you can get for that digital ledger entry, you just might not be able to get it the moment you demand it. If you look carefully, you'll note that your bank probably has a clause in their terms of service that tell you a time and quantity limit on taking your money out as cash.
See here, or here. It is called "fractional reserve".
If the government genuinely wants to stop the amount of uninsured drivers on the road, it should cap ludicrous insurance premiums.
What happens when the payouts from the insurance companies exceed the allowed premiums? Either the insurance companies cover less and less for the same money (your liability coverage is now $1 per accident) or go away (your liability coverage is now $0 per accident). Better would be a cap on lawsuit awards, and somehow eliminating the collusion that results in the repair estimates being exactly what the insurance company will pay.
If you want to get people into public transport, make it less shit.
Wait a 'mo. You Europeans are the ones our public transit zealots keep pointing at when they say "we could have a really good system like them and then ban cars from ...". Are you saying your public transport isn't that good? I hate to tell you, it's tons better than where I live, and we still have people saying things like "you can take the bus so you should stop driving."
If you include a very clear disclaimer on the bill, any case should be thrown out by the courts because it will be obvious there is no intent to pass off your copy as the real deal.
Except that by sending the copy to **AA as "legal tender" and trying to pay for your copy of digital content with it, you are unambiguously showing an intent to pass off the copy as real.
There was (is?) a guy who hand-draws copies of paper money and uses them to pay for things. He has to be very clear up-front with anyone he deals with, "this is a piece of artwork that I am selling you, if you want to buy it", and then he can use that money to pay for his stuff. If he simply handed it over in exchange for goods he'd be counterfeiting. It doesn't matter how bad the copy is (and his were pretty good), it is still counterfeiting if you try to pass a copy as real.
It's not the goal because nobody ever thinks of the long term effects of the system we have versus the system we could have.
Actually having that system is, unfortunately, not a unilateral decision on the part of society. What that means is that the criminal has to want to rehabilitate before we can have a system that rehabilitates people.
You can't force someone to rehabilitate who doesn't want to, just like you can't force someone who doesn't want to "wage peace" to do so.
"Asshole"? Really? My limited understanding is that he is an innocent person until found otherwise, no?
No. He's either guilty or not. He cannot be innocent today and then guilty tomorrow for something he did last week.
The legal system is required to treat him as not until proven otherwise. That, however, does NOT mean that the legal system cannot get a search warrant to obtain evidence that can be used in a court to allow the court to make that determination, so even the claim "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't apply here.
As for how the rest of the world treats him, we have no limits on calling him guilty because we aren't the legal system.
This question is based on an absurd assumption. Why would you need to unprint everything? If you have no use for your junk mail just recycle it. Same as always.
The absurd question is why would you want to unprint anything? If you've already got to deal with recycling junk mail that is printed using any of a number of different processes that aren't laser printing, why not just throw in the laser printed sheets?
Taking the same bit of paper and running it through a unprinter for 20 seconds and then reuse. Energy wise I don't think there will be any contest,
Cost of making laser. Cost of maintenance on unprinter to keep the optical system aligned. Cost of "that unprinted paper looks like crap, I want this document reprinted on fresh paper". Cost of recycling entire unprinter when it wears out. Cost of eyepatches for office staff that try to unjam the unprinter. Cost of disability payments to retired office staff who tried to unjam it twice. Cost of fire department that shows up when someone tries to unprint an inkjet page and paper bursts into flame. Cost of disposing of unprinted toner (you can't just let the vapor out into the room, you know.)
The standard laser printer does not put a charge on paper, it puts a charge on a transfer roller that then transfers the toner to the paper. That toner is then melted onto the paper.
Kodak (and others), used to make dye sublimation printers, where a sheet of plastic with dye on it was whacked with a laser to sublimate the dye directly onto the paper. This had the advantage of being something more than the typical "yes/no" "is there toner there" question, and thus resulted in much better color reproductions. No dithering was required. The major downside, besides cost of supplies, was that you were left with a negative image on the dye sheet, just like the old plastic film typewriters had.
This system sounds like an incredibly wasteful and complicated process. You have to scan the paper to determine where there is toner and sublimate only those spots. If you miss by just that much, you'll char the paper and miss toner. If you put in a sheet of inkjet-printed paper, you'll burn the paper anyway.
Making/recycling paper isn't that hard. This is silly.
So if 1000 doses given to one mouse causes cancer, then it's likely that 1 dose given to each of 1000 people will cause one case of cancer.
Graduated from the Homeopathic School Of Medicine, did we?
Here in the UK we set up the IPCC to deal with exactly that problem.
I thought the IPCC was set up to deal with global climate change? Are the police in the UK responsible for global climate change there?
That would explain why a cop claimed he measured me at 91,
Yes, a failure to calibrate the breathalyzer would explain this.
even though my cruise control had been set to 79 (plus four over the speed limit).
If you are going to rely on your cruise control, you should be aware that they don't always keep you from going faster than they are set. They will try to accellerate if the car starts to slow, but I don't know of any of them that will put on the brakes if you are going too fast.
You can easily override the speed by resting your foot on the accellerator. The one in my car actually does worse at controlling speed going downhill than just letting the car control itself. I.e., cruise control on, downhill, I can pick up 20MPH, but with it off, the natural engine braking keeps me close to speed.
His equipment was probably not calibrated and giving false readings.
If you are ever stopped for a radar violation, ask to see the equipment calibrated in front of you. It's really easy to do, all they do is hold a tuning fork in front of the antenna. If they refuse, then you have good grounds to claim failure to calibrate as required.
It's quite easy to copy the text of printed books with absolute fdelity.
Quite untrue. Each copy of a printed book is degraded by the noise added in the process. While there may be "no letters between A and B", what is copied are not "letters", but analog representations of such. Even modern "digital" copiers are only making a temporary digital image of the analog page they are copying, and then recreating an analog page as the output. Their goal is, for some level of resolution, to copy the analog reflectance (and color, for color copiers) of each point on the input to the output. Color copiers have the built-in limitation that they can't have "absolute fidelity" unless the input color can be perfectly represented by a linear sum of the toner colors available. A simple thought experiment shows how easy it is to fail -- try copying something that consists of a single wavelength in the green region. Since there is no green toner, you can only get an approximation.
Try it sometime. Find yourself a copy machine and try taking one page of a book and copying it. Then copy the copy. Keep doing that. Depending on the quality of your copy machine, it won't be very long before the analog nature of what you are doing will become apparent.
Then, of course, you need to realize that "books" are not just assemblages of "letters", but often contain pictures and other analog representations of reality.
If it was "quite easy" to have "absolute fidelity", everyone would be doing it.
It's a neat bit of physics, and will probably have implications for device efficiency and other applications.
It's the solution for global warming.
Take a large bank of these over-efficient LEDs. Shine them on a solar panel. Power the LEDs from the solar panel output. Everything in the vicinity of the LEDs gets cold. Make lots of these. Problem solved.
If it seems like a perpetual motion system, it probably is. If you've got a 230% efficient LED, then you can have a 50% efficient solar panel and still come out ahead.
The only problem is what to do with all the excess electricity these things will produce.
Nobody sells e-goods, they're "licensed",
Really? So all those DRM-free books I've been buying in multiple formats from Fictionwise are ... ummm. Huh?
which means that I may use them as long as the publisher lets me in ways they like (which they may change at any time they like), or as long as the publisher or some unrelated third party who happens to own them at the time doesn't mismanage its finances and disappear.
Dell Magazines is going to have a real hard time finding all the copies of the magazines I've "licensed" from them should they ever go out of business and want to stop me from reading them, much less just change their mind about my being able to read them.
If you are paying money to people who can take things back from you at their whim, that's your problem.
But yeah, it would sure be nice to be able to buy e-books.
Yes, it is. On the other hand, there are so many free ones available, why do you need to buy any at all?
What could more ephemeral than a thin layer of rust with some magnetic fields recorded on it?
A thin layer of organic material with small amounts of organic material deposited on the surface.
I don't see any "thin layer of rust" in the flash chip that is currently storing one copy of Foundation I own, nor the USB stick that has another copy. There might be a "thin layer of rust" in the hard disk that stores a couple more copies, and the backups.
Tried making a backup of a physical book lately? I can back my "ephemeral rust" copies of books up at about 100 per minute (not 100 pages per minute, 100 books per) on a whim and without getting out of my chair.
Paper can last thousands of years if cared for.
"If cared for", when talking about paper, means initial printing on acid-free paper, and then storage of the material in an environmentally controlled facility. It does not include "reading", and certainly not "carry on the train to read while commuting".
Let me know when e-anything looks like it will archive that well.
Every ebook that I carry on a daily basis has survived for the last several years of doing so, while there are few, if any, paper books that have survived that kind of use. I'd say e-anything looks pretty good compared to paper when one is actually using the products and not just trying to keep an archive of comic books for one's great grandchildren to look at through the plastic bags.
a lot of things could be fabricated - but if it's fabricated really well and is as good as truth, checks out even, what's actually the difference?
What's the difference between the truth and a lie? This is just sad. Very very sad.
So why in the last 700 million years of earth being habitable have they not come by and colonized it?
We did. Now we're watching to see how you do.
true but they weren't produced by magic.
I didn't say they were. What I said is that the existance of a "sufficiently advanced technology" doesn't prove that diamonds cannot be produced in any other way. Diamonds are an example not because I think they are produced by "magic", but because the technological source doesn't prove anything about any other source in such an obvious way that I didn't think I'd have to answer ridiculous claims that I thought they were all magic.
That's pretty close to TU Delft, so maybe the ones TU Delft has found are one of the pairs from Deltares?
At least I THINK that's what the Dutch speaking guide called them.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. But it is not magic. Moral of the story? There is no such thing as magic.
"All A is B" does not prove "All B is A".
The fact that you might find some advanced technology that will allow you to turn water into wine doesn't mean that when I do it it isn't magic, only that when YOU do it it isn't. Magic is the process, not the end result.
There is currently technology that will take elemental carbon and produce diamonds in the laboratory. That doesn't mean that every diamond on the planet was produced in a laboratory.
How can I have the freedom to redistribute my software at no cost (which is one of the freedoms you have with free software) if I have to pay royalties to some standards body in order to do so,...
How can you have freedom to distribute software that violates the IP of someone else under GPL to start with? What does whether the royalty you'd have to pay to use it is fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory or not have to do with it? What does FRAND cost you that not having FRAND saves you?
I am sure you will say the same thing if Google employees starts reading your email for fun and profit.
The ECPA doesn't call for voluntary compliance. Please stop using this silly analogy.
Among other things, leaving the UK is a lot easier and faster than leaving the USA.
And the UK has how many nukes? Three? Four? The US has at least a dozen, and all that security would simply bankrupt us. The medical insurance coverage for the number of truck drivers would be astronomical.
As to "trading spectrum with the DoD" - holy crap what morons. Sorry, when you're talking about a complete network of satellites, the costs of throwing away that network and building a new one are astronomical.
nobody suggested throwing any satellites away.
The band lightsquared is in now is not IN the GPS band, it is just so close that it interferes, and only because they want to do high-powered stuff there.
The neighborhood should have been guarded so that nobody could use it, but that would have taken the ability to predict the ubiquitous nature of today's GPS systems. I think if someone had said, back in the early days of GPS, that every cell phone would have a GPS receiver in it, they'd have looked at you like you had two heads.
If DOD has some other bandwidth that is doing similar low-powered stuff, then it probably wouldn't be too hard to swap. This is the same kind of thing that happened when Nextel got spectrum near the public safety bands up around 800 MHz and started causing all kinds of interference. Spectrum was swapped and yes, it has cost a bundle of money to move all the public safety people, but it solved a problem.