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Terms Of Service

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Hacker Slang: TOS
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[from the acronym for ‘Terms Of Service’ playing on the verb “toss”]

1. The act of terminating an Internet access account because the owner breached the terms of service (e.g. by spamming).

2. To successfully complain to the ISP for that reason so that they then close the account.


Wikipedia: TOS
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TOS may refer to:

General

Aviation

Chemistry

Computing

  • Tape Operating System, predecessor to IBM's Disk Operating System
  • Tcl Object System, an object-oriented system build on Tcl, which is no longer supported
  • Terms of service, for computer and telecommunications networks
  • Atari TOS, the operating system of the Atari ST computers
  • TinyOS, an open-source operating system designed for wireless embedded sensor networks
  • Type of Service, a field found in the header of IPv4 packets
  • Talend Open Studio, an open source ETL tool
  • In internet slang, "to TOS" someone is to report them for a violation of a service's Terms of Service

Computer / Video games

Culture

Music

Medicine

Organizations

Container/RORO terminals

  • Terminal Operation System

Clothing


 
 

 

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