Nothing impressive, but when I was 12 my neighbor had an old C-band satellite dish and I'd hang out with their son watching movies. The parents had put a paren

Nothing impressive, but when I was 12 my neighbor had an old C-band satellite dish and I'd hang out with their son watching movies. The parents had put a parental block on some R-rated channels and we wanted to watch those movies. We found 2 different ways to get around it. The first one was to use the built-in timer to go to that channel at a specific time. I wondered if it still blocked the channel and no, it didn't! So just set a timer for 1 min from now and "poof!" could watch that channel. The other way was that with C-band dishes the satellite dish had to move along an arc to receive signals from specific satellites. The receiver would remember the positions and the satellite was "identified" by a certain position on the arc it traversed. Of course the parental block was just a combination of "satellite-channel" block. So you could manually move the dish via the remote a very small amount so that it was on a part of the arc the receiver didn't consider "the satellite" but you could still pick up the signal. Boom, no parental block and you didn't have to wait for the timer to change the channel. Was pretty proud of myself for those two.