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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. Slashdot Ads by itamihn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is with the huge banner that Slashdot lately has? Worse yet, it's floating and moves with scrolling, making it impossible to read anything on a short window. Will Slashdot finally be the site that makes me use adblocking software?

    1. Re:Slashdot Ads by Baron_Yam · · Score: 4, Insightful

      >Star Trek usually considers the moral and philosophical implications of choices, but so far there has been very little of that in Discover

      That would be science fiction. CBS isn't in the sci-fi business. Hell, they're not even in the 'sci-fi veneer on something else' business. They're mainly in the 'procedurals with some action for the over 40 crowd' business.

      They really ought to have sold off the Star Trek TV rights, it's not in their wheelhouse.

    2. Re:Slashdot Ads by theweatherelectric · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I guess I don't think we're living in a time when Star Trek could be successful

      Maybe the The Orville will be successful. Even with the comedy aspect to it The Orville is more Star Trek than Star Trek is these days.

  2. Hollywood OS by iTrawl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Federation runs Hollywood OS. It's so advanced that it can run legacy code of the 20th century in a bio-quantum context. If you look closely enough you'll see that it can run a languane known as PerlthonJS (to give an example), which, to the untrained eye, looks only like a random mixture of Perl, Python and JavaScript in one source file.

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  3. At least it's actually code! by cmseagle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They could've taken the typical Hollywood approach and shown a bunch of green, Matrix-like gibberish scrolling across the screen. I'm choosing to view this more as an easter egg than as a continuity issue.

  4. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who wants windows to managed their antimatter.

    What's worse... if Windows manages their computer; Cortana (aka Clippy 2) is probably the voice control controlling the computers. That bitch cortana is who my grand kids will have to talk to if they want their "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot". This makes me sad.

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