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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 'Mass
by jkingsman 1y 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"
- IOUnix 1y agoHahah, great point. As a music nut I knew what it was talking about, but to people who don't it might seem alarming.
- antonymoose 1y agoI unironically thought this was going to be about a recent terrorist attack on a concert.
- pinkmuffinere 1y agoYa same, I thought they had footage during an attack, and now had to do facial recognition to determine the perpetrators or victims
- hulitu 1y ago> 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 ?
- JimDabell 1y agoThis 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.
- ricardonunez 1y ago“Turns concert” clarified it to me.
- bruffen 1y agoMy next stop was going to be LiveLeak to see the aftermath.
- pineaux 1y agoLiveleak is no more my good old friend
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoWhy 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.
- andrewflnr 1y agoThe 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 1y ago> 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 1y agoIf 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.
- layer8 1y agoThe casing sort-of disambiguates it.
- cornichon622 1y agoThe casing was changed, before almost every word had an uppercase. I'll never understand that trend!
- tempodox 1y agoIt’s called title case. Although this example shows that not title-casing it can carry additional information.
- treetalker 1y agoJust as in Wayne's World, where the band being referred to was The Shitty Beetles, "It's not just a clever name!"
- andrewflnr 1y agoMy read was "cyber attack". I had to do some backtracking and context lookups to get the right parse.
- jameslk 1y agoAnyone 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 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
- bmitc 1y agoAs 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 1y agoOr indeed the TV series House, albeit in the US.
- AndrewOMartin 1y agoSome people in Europe have Televisions, too.
- 0312831209381 1y agoThe 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)
- tempodox 1y agoMy Massive Attack is a bit rusty. What song is that?
- jameslk 1y agoDissolved Girl from the album Mezzanine, though as another commenter mentioned elsewhere, a different version of the track is used in the film
- navane 1y agoThat's what the capitalization of attack is doing.