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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 'Massive Attack' Turns Concert into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment"

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Hahah, great point. As a music nut I knew what it was talking about, but to people who don't it might seem alarming.

I unironically thought this was going to be about a recent terrorist attack on a concert.

Ya same, I thought they had footage during an attack, and now had to do facial recognition to determine the perpetrators or victims

> 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 ?

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.

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

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.

Or indeed the TV series House, albeit in the US.

Some people in Europe have Televisions, too.

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)

My Massive Attack is a bit rusty. What song is that?

Dissolved Girl from the album Mezzanine, though as another commenter mentioned elsewhere, a different version of the track is used in the film

“Turns concert” clarified it to me.

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.

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.

> 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.

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.

That's what the capitalization of attack is doing.

Just as in Wayne's World, where the band being referred to was The Shitty Beetles, "It's not just a clever name!"

The casing sort-of disambiguates it.

The casing was changed, before almost every word had an uppercase. I'll never understand that trend!

It’s called title case. Although this example shows that not title-casing it can carry additional information.

My read was "cyber attack". I had to do some backtracking and context lookups to get the right parse.

My next stop was going to be LiveLeak to see the aftermath.

Liveleak is no more my good old friend

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