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jkingsman | 5 months 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|5 months ago

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

JimDabell|5 months ago

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|5 months ago

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

jameslk|5 months ago

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

bmitc|5 months ago

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.

tempodox|5 months ago

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

zeristor|5 months ago

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

ricardonunez|5 months ago

“Turns concert” clarified it to me.

add-sub-mul-div|5 months ago

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.

andrewflnr|5 months ago

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.

navane|5 months ago

That's what the capitalization of attack is doing.

treetalker|5 months ago

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

layer8|5 months ago

The casing sort-of disambiguates it.

cornichon622|5 months ago

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

andrewflnr|5 months ago

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

bruffen|5 months ago

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

pineaux|5 months ago

Liveleak is no more my good old friend