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A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process all over again.

Within three minutes after the first Slammer packet was unleashed, the number of infected computers was doubling every eight seconds. Within 15 minutes, large sections of the Net were overloaded and out of commission. See buffer overflow.

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noun

A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention: brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison. Informal lockup, pen³. Slang big house, can, clink, cooler, coop, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey¹, stir². Chiefly Regional calaboose. See free/unfree.

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noun, orig US

Prison; usu. with the; sometimes the slammers. Cf. slam noun 2. (1952 —) .
D. Bagley This one's not for the slammer. He'll go to Broadmoor for sure (1977).

[Perh. from the slamming shut of cell doors.]

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fængsel

Nederlands (Dutch)
nor

Français (French)
n. - taule

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kittchen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αργκό) φυλακή, στενή

Italiano (Italian)
gattabuia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - prisão (f)

Русский (Russian)
тюрьма, каталажка

Español (Spanish)
n. - chirona, gayola, cárcel

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kåken, finkan

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
监牢, 监狱

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 監牢, 監獄

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 교도소, 문, 출입구

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ブタ箱, ドア, 刑務所

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سجن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כלא, בית סוהר‬

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