I have quite a few friends at work running the DirecTV hack. I think they all have emulators. I've thought about it, but I get my cable free anyways (as part of rent). Also, my condo faces the wrong way.

My dad in Canada is very interested, though. Haven't decided whether I'll send it to him.

You left out the best part of the Black Sunday story...When the cards were knocked out, the new data that had been written to the cards said "GAME OVER". You can check out the full story here:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/25/1343218&mode=thread