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According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the final-frontier-indeed dept.

AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: The third episode of Star Trek: Discovery aired this week, and at one point in the episode, Sonequa Martin-Green's Michael Burnham is tasked with reconciling two suites of code. In the show, Burnham claims the code is confusing because it deals with quantum astrophysics, biochemistry, and gene expression. And while the episode later reveals that it's related to the USS Discovery's experimental new mycelial network transportation system, Twitter user Rob Graham noted the code itself is a little more pedestrian in nature. More specifically, it seems to be decompiled code for the infamous Stuxnet virus, developed by the United States to attack Iranian computers running Windows.

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  1. Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by physburn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who wants windows to managed their antimatter.

    1. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Austerity+Empowers · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't want it to manage the turbolifts or even whatever they use for toilets. If the best the federation has is Windows, I'm joining up with the Romulans.

    2. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't want it to manage the turbolifts or even whatever they use for toilets. If the best the federation has is Windows, I'm joining up with the Romulans.

      Closed environment?

      Smug sense of superiority?

      Apple!

    3. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      DS9 gets a pass. That was a Kardashian station so it had whatever was hip at the time. Yes, I know, Cardassians.

    4. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by The+Grassy+Knoll · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Cannot convert matter to anti-matter. It is already in use by another object."

      Meh.

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    5. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Dracos · · Score: 2, Funny

      That was a Kardashian station so it had whatever was hip at the time.

      That was a Kardashian station so it had whatever was ass at the time.

      FTFY.

    6. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by perpenso · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why do starship designers love to route plasma conduits behind control panels?

      They need the power, there is a background task mining federation coins.

  2. In a later episode... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the Klingons will travel back in time to destroy mankind and starfleet by inventing Windows...

    captcha: compile. really, slashdot?

  3. Windows XP runs the warp core by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Press START to STOP engines.

    FATAL EXCEPTION: Warp core dumped!

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  4. The Federation is DOOMED! by Chas · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Borg are in orbit.
    SIR! Our global defense grid just BSOD'ed!
    Shit! Someone send the Borg a Linux ISO from a distro that uses systemd!

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!