Re:Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surv...
by jkingsman on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:23PM
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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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by IOUnix on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:26PM
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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.
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by antonymoose on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:48PM
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I unironically thought this was going to be about a recent terrorist attack on a concert.
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by pinkmuffinere on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:50PM
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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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by hulitu on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:05AM
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> 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 ?
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by JimDabell on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:48AM
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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.
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by add-sub-mul-div on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:13PM
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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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by andrewflnr on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:53PM
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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.
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by hulitu on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:09AM
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> 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.
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by andrewflnr on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:22AM
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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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by ricardonunez on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:00PM
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“Turns concert” clarified it to me.
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by bruffen on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:05PM
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My next stop was going to be LiveLeak to see the aftermath.
Re:Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surv...
by pineaux on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:57PM
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Liveleak is no more my good old friend
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by layer8 on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:47PM
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The casing sort-of disambiguates it.
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by cornichon622 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:53AM
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The casing was changed, before almost every word had an uppercase. I'll never understand that trend!
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by tempodox on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:32AM
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It’s called title case. Although this example shows that not title-casing it can carry additional information.
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by treetalker on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:21PM
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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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by andrewflnr on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:55PM
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My read was "cyber attack". I had to do some backtracking and context lookups to get the right parse.
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by jameslk on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @12:56AM
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Anyone who’s seen The Matrix has been exposed to Massive Attack in one of the most famous scenes from the movie:
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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by zeristor on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:27AM
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Or indeed the TV series House, albeit in the US.
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by AndrewOMartin on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:17AM
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Some people in Europe have Televisions, too.
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by 0312831209381 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:24AM
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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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by bmitc on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:56AM
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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.
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by tempodox on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:29AM
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My Massive Attack is a bit rusty. What song is that?