| ▲ | jkingsman 19 hours ago |
| Feels like this title could benefit from clarification that 'Massive Attack' refers to the band and not the concept of a large scale attack; perhaps "Band 'Massive Attack' Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment" |
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| ▲ | IOUnix 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Hahah, great point. As a music nut I knew what it was talking about, but to people who don't it might seem alarming. |
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| ▲ | JimDabell 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This reminds me of the time I bought a physical copy of O’Reilly’s Python Cookbook from a bookshop and wondered why everybody was giving me strange looks. | |
| ▲ | antonymoose 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I unironically thought this was going to be about a recent terrorist attack on a concert. | | |
| ▲ | hulitu 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I unironically thought this was going to be about a recent terrorist attack on a concert. Nothing personal, but you do seem to have a nice education. US ? | |
| ▲ | pinkmuffinere 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ya same, I thought they had footage during an attack, and now had to do facial recognition to determine the perpetrators or victims |
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| ▲ | jameslk 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyone who’s seen The Matrix has been exposed to Massive Attack in one of the most famous scenes from the movie: https://youtu.be/6IDT3MpSCKI In fact, I recall many songs from The Matrix being played nonstop back in my teenage gamer IRC days. Maybe even by others than just me |
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| ▲ | tempodox 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My Massive Attack is a bit rusty. What song is that? | |
| ▲ | bmitc 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | As a note, that version is a pre-release version that was used in the movie before the album released. The album version is different. | |
| ▲ | zeristor 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or indeed the TV series House, albeit in the US. | | |
| ▲ | AndrewOMartin 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some people in Europe have Televisions, too. | | |
| ▲ | 0312831209381 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | The show 'House' has used three different opening tracks depending on territory and medium. Massive Attack's Teardrop was used in the original US air (although as a Brit I've somehow heard all three on tv re-runs and Amazon Prime) |
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| ▲ | ricardonunez 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| “Turns concert” clarified it to me. |
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| ▲ | navane 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's what the capitalization of attack is doing. |
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| ▲ | treetalker 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Just as in Wayne's World, where the band being referred to was The Shitty Beetles, "It's not just a clever name!" |
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| ▲ | layer8 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The casing sort-of disambiguates it. |
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| ▲ | cornichon622 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | The casing was changed, before almost every word had an uppercase. I'll never understand that trend! | | |
| ▲ | tempodox 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | It’s called title case. Although this example shows that not title-casing it can carry additional information. |
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| ▲ | andrewflnr 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My read was "cyber attack". I had to do some backtracking and context lookups to get the right parse. |
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| ▲ | bruffen 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My next stop was going to be LiveLeak to see the aftermath. |
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| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why suggest that headlines should have enough detail to prevent people from reading the article and gaining a fuller understanding of the material? The problem isn't that headlines don't have enough details, it's that people want to or already do treat them like the full story and never have to learn anything nuanced therein. |
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| ▲ | andrewflnr 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | The purpose of a headline, at least in an ideal world, is to tell you whether the article's topic is relevant to your interests. That's all that's being asked for here. Being able to properly parse the headline is a good start. | | |
| ▲ | hulitu 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Being able to properly parse the headline is a good start. The headline is perfectly parseable, unless most of the headlines on HN or BBC. The fact that it says "Band concert" shall be selfexplanatory. | | |
| ▲ | andrewflnr 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it did say "band concert", that would still be grammatically dubious but would still indeed be more self explanatory. But it literally doesn't say that. |
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