Bail is what you pay the court. It is collateral against you turning back up when it's time for trial. The court holds the money and gives it back to you when you show up. If you don't show up, they keep the money, in addition to whatever further legal problems you have for skipping a court date.

If you do not have enough to pay bail, there are private bail bondsman companies. You pay them 10% of the bail amount, and they pay the bail money to the court. When you show up, the company gets their bail money back, and they keep the 10% you paid because that's how they make their money.

Rights issues, I believe. It took them a while to get all the stuff on the original Muppet Show cleared, I can only imagine what it costs to get the rights for something like Prince. Probably too much for a show that didn't do all that well to begin with.

That's a good question, as it is kind of fascinating. I've heard people complain about them changing some lyrics around to better suit Disney, but still, they got Disney to pay for a 14-year-old girl to cover "Uncontrollable Urge," which is pretty amazing.

As a matter of official process, nothing. The fact that something is no longer legal now does not mean you didn't commit an offense when it was illegal in the past. By much the same logic, if something is made illegal now, that doesn't mean you can be charged for doing it when it was still legal.

That being said, there are methods for the government (usually via the executive branch in the US) to grand clemency in some form or another to many of those convicted of something that is no longer illegal.

Router: Routes packets at the IP level.

Switch: Routes packets at the layer 2/MAC address level.

So a packet going out gets to a router, the router decides by IP address where that packet needs to go. If that IP address is "local" to the router, that is in a subnet the router has ownership of, it then uses switching to send the packet to the destination. Most modern routers have some switching capability, and most switches have some routing capability.

Hubs: Really dumb switches. A switch will keep track of connected devices, so if a packet is going to destination MAC aaaa.bbbb.cccc.dddd, it knows that MAC is on port 7 and sends it to that port. A hub does not keep track of such things and just sends the packet to every connected port. There may be some use cases for hubs still, but generally they should be avoided.

Bridge: generally a point to point link of some kind. For example, if you have two office buildings, the main one has the main network, but the second one needs to connect but you can't run any sort of standard ethernet arrangement, you might set up some sort of point-to-point wireless bridge connection.

Modem: Changes signal type. For example, cable internet does not use ethernet. So the cable modem is what changes the ethernet packets to the DOCSIS protocol on the cable coax.

Access Point: WiFi. Is the communication point for end devices using WiFi to talk to the network. Wireless broadcast, so arguably more of a hub than a switch in such terms.

Transceiver: The physical component in a router or switch that is turning the packets into flashes of light on the fiber line.

Repeater: If your signal has to go a long distance on the wire, it may not be strong enough to make it. So a repeater will just take the signal coming in and blast it out the other. The bonfires between Rohan and Gondor are repeaters.

Range Extender: I generally hear this with WiFi, essentially trying to do the same thing as a repeater, but it's sometimes a little more complicated since WiFi is broadcast radio.

If by "bright side" you include breaking a lot of existing SteamLink functionality, sure. Got the new update yesterday, looks like it no longer understands having controllers/keyboards plugged into both the main computer and the SteamLink, so I wasn't able to properly use any inputs. Thought I would restart the SteamLink via the power option, apparently in the new Big Picture that powers down my actual PC. Not sure what the "Format SD card" option does, or even why it's there other than perhaps a lazy cut and paste of the UI.

I didn't take the class, it was just a quick summary he gave of part of his class, but if humans are selecting the answers, or even just reviewing and editing the answers, there is going to be some sort of bias--"that's too many Cs in a row," or "there's too many As in this section." Whether or not one specific "SAT tips!" advice or another was actually better, I don't know.

Yes--back when I was in high school in the late 80s, one of my teachers also taught a SAT prep class, and at the time they were teaching a strategy where if you had no idea and just had to guess, then avoid ACEs and doubles. A was too easy, E too hard, C too obvious, and test creators don't like answer streaks. I would assume test creation methodology has changed for the SAT in 30 years, but it still may be helpful for any human-created multiple choice tests out there.