Good work!
Parallels SCO's apparent attack on Pamela Jones, creator of Groklaw.
I've been lurking on both sites for a very long time, and greatly appreciate getting the facts and the sources. Reading source docs are important in calibrating the BS filters.
...to contain itself? The only way to host the entire internet is to connect and download it, which makes Big Blue's BigBox a part of the internet...it would have to download itself.
And then it would be the hugest porn server in the universe. Ttl kewlniz.
If it supports anonymous free speech. Any uncontrolled arena in life will be viewed by government as a threat. That's why the Bill of Rights was written in the first place.
Consider this...Mercury formed closest to the sun, meaning the lighter weight elements were more likely either blown away by solar wind, or absorbed by the sun's formation before Mercury was sizable. That means Mercury is probly higher in heavier elements.
That makes Mercury a richer target for eventual mining of rare metals as a part of building economically self-sustaining space colonies.
Mars has soil that won't grow Earth plants easily, enuf atmosphere and gravity to be a pita to spacecraft and too little of either to be useful for anything else, and no real economic development prospects yet known. Let's face it, the chance of life is real long shot. So why is Mars so interesting?
are almost always "black and white" and color is obtained by rotating different color filters in front for several shots. The different colored shots are combined to get color images.
"False color" is used (most often) when the images are taken in frequencies human eyes can't see, and so the data are adjusted bring out signif features.
The lack of smoothness, and use of few frames, is probly cuz this was a flyby, not final approach to orbit. Flybys occur at much higher speeds, and there's less time, so fewer frames.
Actually, the darkside of Mercury (yes, it has one. No, Earth's moon does not.) IS grayscale (like the inside of a black cat in a coal mine at midnight...).
Infrared isn't more important, for science, what's most important is viewing with the widest range of frequencies possible.
I bought my Apple ][ in 1979. It HAD true lower case, and I read DrDobb's to find the snippet of machine code for the sweet-16 interpreter that would make the shift key work like a regular shift key. The lower case was in the box, but wasn't in the keyboard. ][+ changed all that, however, with the built-in Microsoft Basic (yes, it was slow and needed more RAM). God I wish I'd kept it - serial number was less than 33,000 (32668 or something else similar to 32768 - 2^15).
The disk driver was unlike anything else on the market - you could remap the sector addresses, speed it up and increase 5.25 disk storage from the stock 140K to as much as 180K - COOL.
I still have the red book, however.
I tasted the new coke - it was too sweet, and reminded me of DrPepper, which I didn't like. After the fiasco, Coke and new Coke were sold side by side for awhile. I toured the USS Lexington (old, trainer aircraft carrier) some months later, and discovered what happened to most of the new Coke: on the flight deck were large areas (20 foot square, approx) chain linked and gated for holding commissary supplies. One of these areas was filled, floor to ceiling way up there, with pallets of New Coke for the ship's vending machines. All I could think was, these poor sailors have to put up with all the limitations of living at sea, and the Navy adds New Coke to their troubles.
(I still where onions on my belt)
To fix Vista, Microsoft simply needs to introduce a new bootloader at the operating system level similar to the one used by Ubuntu. With the bootloader, Vista and all future Microsoft operating systems would default to Linux. Anyone wanting the full Vista experience could simply go to the zoo and let the monkeys throw poo at them.
"needless complexities introduced" - Most Windows releases have been criticized for adding complexity - something I've never heard attributed to any part of Unix or Linux.
"application crash issues" I've had with Unix and/or Linux: zero. I mean zero. Individual apps may occassionally hiccup, but those bugs can be found (since I can get at teh source code). It's NEVER been enuf so that I was tempted to call it "an issue".
I think he means the registry plus Windows' auto-update feature. The problems with both is why that idea isn't a good one. How many times have you read the phrase "Windows registry corruption" or a headline about how Microsoft's latest update killed ten million users?
I feel confident I'm right when I state:
A "complete Vista makeover... starting with new code" is not something one does when "there's nothing wrong with" the product.
This statement is so far from reality that it's even out of range of the orbital nukes.
I'll assume the/. summary is quoting the article, since I can't bring myself to clicky TFA.
It's a wiki for people who want to take control of the job. It's mostly about extreme programming, but much of it can really be applied to any process system.
A contract is an agreement between parties where they exchange considerations (benefits). A contract by itself can NEVER enable you to do something that is otherwise illegal. It is common for contracts to include license grants (like software "EULA"s). Example: You can use my fishing cabin next Thursday if you pay me $100. We both must agree - you agree to give me bucks, I give you a one day license. If either doesn't agree, it don't happen.
A license allows you to do something that is otherwise illegal - such as fish, hunt, drive a car. License does NOT require agreement. Here's an example: You can use my fishing cabin next Thursday. See? You didn't have to agree - I just let you have a one-day license, whether you want it or not. If you don't agree, so what? The license is still sitting there.
Since copying, distributing, etc, source code is illegal without a grant of rights from the holder, and since the recipients of the software don't have to agree, the GPL is a license, not a contract.
If he has distributed the software in binary form, then does not offer the source to the downloaders, then he's in violation of the GPL. It doesn't matter that he's the author of the software - the license says if you distribute binaries, you MUST make the source available (I think for 3 years) at no (unreasonable) cost.
I meant that 'autism is not retardation' solely in regard to the person's actual mental abilities. I wasn't considering the actual diagnostic history of the two. Sorry for the miscue.
Actually, Asperger's syndrome was first described clinically in 1944. It didn't make it into the DSM IV until 1994.
There's no autism baseline with naturally set and known rates of what the diagnosis rate should be.
Agreed, but I didn't say there was. My point was that the rate of diagnosis is increasing, and it's not just cuz the world is becoming aware of it. Research it - it is a complex subject. Sorry I'm not linking, but you have to read a lotta research (or press releases about the research) AND the counter-arguments from other clinicians in order to get the full picture. In addition, you must take into account WHO is reporting/paying for the research. There's a lotta snake oil out there about autism cuz alotta snakes smell money.
It's neither as bad as some want us to believe, nor is it just a fad. a lot of "mild retardation" is, indeed, included in ASD Autism is not primarily causitive of retardation; but retardation can be secondary effect, like the bad behavior. The inescapable impact of moderate to severe autism is that the child simply can't develop their mind in other normal ways. "it's a fad disease because "
Calling it a 'fad' disease is similar to the Washington Monthly author calling those who disagree with him "emotionally invested". Sure, some people treat autism emotionally (including fad-fetishing it). That is in no way a characteristic of autism, but of another sickness in the US culture that perhaps should have its own diagnosis. (I think a good treatment of THAT illness is a few smacks upside dahed.)
I regard gp post as possible flamebait. No compentent doctor can mistake autism with retardation. It's like diagnosing a broken leg as appendicitis. autism can cause retardation in extreme cases, but moderate to minor cases (like Asperger's), autistic kids tend to have average intelligence or better. There are many, many other easily-spotted differences as well - sensory defensiveness, attention deficits (mental retardation doesn't always have these, autism always does), etc.
#1: FDA "grandfathered" a lotta medicines and treatments as it took control over drug regulation. Most grandfathered drugs did not require safety testing, even to this day. I'm not saying that was good or bad - but was thimerosal one of the 'grandfathered' drugs? Aspirin is a good example of why "we've always done it that way" is NOT a good safety policy. (aspirin can trigger seizures in children).
Autism is neither a fad disease nor is "mild retardation". Please study a topic before spouting on it.
Autism is diagnosed more because: several syndromes that were thought unrelated have been shown to be related; Better techniques for diagnosing "minor" versions of Autism (like Asperger's, ADHD) are available; Doctors are becoming better educated on the subject.
But the rise in diagnoses far exceeds the combination of all these effects.
Please note the article is highly biased: "many autism advocates still aren't convinced. I'm not surprised. I suspect that the emotional investment in..." The writer immediately dismisses those who disagree as being "emotionally invested" and doesn't mention whether those who study the problem are "financially invested".
Don't trust school district specialists for anything regarding special needs kids. Personal experience - the districts hire specialists who keep costs down. Although Fed funds help, states must foot most of the cost of teaching special needs kids, and federal law (IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act) does not permit "lack of resources" (money) as a reason for not meeting kids' needs. So the districts hire and promote "specialists" who have track records for low "positive" rates. The result is kids who have minor needs (like ADHD and High Functioning Autism) are treated as behavioral or "emotionally disturbed" and are shunted off to juvenile detention as soon as the district can engineer it. Before trusting a govt agent with an agenda, read the research yourself. YES, there is a rising number of kids with autism, and no one good explanation yet. "This is because children labeled autistic" versus "children who are just deemed learning disabled" and So parents with mentally disabled children are increasingly encouraged to have their child [labelled?] autistic." Autism IS a learning disability, and it's what the f**king law is there for. It is NOT necessarily a "mental disability", in that it does not necessarily cause a child to have lower IQ scores, nor (with training) does it cause a child to have extremely unacceptable behaviors. However, a teacher that treats an HFA kid as purely a discipline problem can cause all kinds of punishable behaviors.
Please take some time to learn a little more about this - your understanding of the topic seems quite muddled.
I'd pay 12.99 just to NOT hear him ever again...Sony must really really WANT this to fail. Perhaps they're trying to generate some ammo for political talking points.
To see what position the eye is in, or exactly how the lips tighten, the face must hold the "micro" position long enough to be seen clearly. Visual clarity can not occur faster than the eye's biochemistry can operate.
"Persistence of vision" is caused by the finite amount of time required to replenish the rodopsin in the rods/cones of the eye. It is not a cognitive process, and therefore, no amount of training can overcome it.
As TFA says, they've got to look for suspicious behaviors and "vague, evasive responses" along with microexpressions. "Ordinary people...are much more open with their body movements and expressions..." I doubt I'd have body language "open" enough be considered "ordinary" when they scoop up 600 'ordinary' people along with 11 that get arrested. ...the sensitivity TSA is bringing to the program, [Maccario] recalled a meeting with an association for people with Tourette's disorder to assure them that having a tic will not result in a pat-down.
Oh yeah, that's sensitive - marginalizing autism to "having a tic" really makes me think they care. (Tourette's is a form of HFA)
That's why I distrust this - it assumes that if your behaviors aren't "ordinary" as they define "ordinary", then they have probable cause.
Note the quote. In TFA, the TSA spokesman said vagueness. Hyperactivity is not unstimulated fidgetyness, but overstimulated fidgetyness. It is caused by neurological over-reaction to either stimulus from the environment, or from (unknown) internal neurological activity. There's no way this can avoid affecting "micro expressions". Trying to apply neurotypical behavioral rules to an autistic is bound to fail. This is a big part of why HFAs have such trouble fitting in in school. HFAs have normal or higher than normal intelligence, but poor social adaptability because of their inability to correctly express themselves nonverbally.
Don't believe the crap about "micro expressions" - if it isn't total TSA BS, then the micro-expressions are probably on the order of several tenths of a second, not 1 or 2 hundredths. I seriously doubt that mere training alone would enable a person to see something that occurs in 1 or 2 hundredths of a second. If so, movies and TV wouldn't work - they flash frames for 30-35 milliseconds (25 per second) (for movies, with a blank screen in between) to give a smooth appearance of movement. If human eyes could catch 10 millisecond movements, TV and movies would be too jerky to watch, and movies would flash. Every seen an old silent film that wasn't speeded up? They used to be 12-15 frames per second and flashed irritatingly cuz the eye could just barely catch the movement.
The claim of "99%" accuracy IS complete BS - TFA said they were getting 99% false positives. And again, I question whether they tested the accuracy against autistic people to see what the false positive rate is for them.
Ummm...I can't think of anything to add to the subject line, except some comparisons: if 99% of the people getting speeding tickets were innocent, would that be "excellent"? If you were charged incorrectly 99% of the time you bought groceries or fastfood, would that be "so good"?
Yes, these are relevant comparisons: in each case, you can correct the situation by greater interaction (court appearance, challenging the receipts, stripping to yer undies) with the mistaken organizations.
And in each case, the wrongness is unacceptable.
Do their techinques take into account people with high functioning autism, or other non-neurotypical conditions that affect body language? I accidentally beat a polygraph test years ago because I was so uniformly anxious that when I DID lie, the interpreter didn't see it as any different than my other responses.
Parts of the autistic condition are severe ADHD and the inability to read or express thru facial or body expressions. The hyperactivity alone (fidgetyness) can be interpreted as sneakiness or a deceptivity-give-away. Other body language miscues produced will result what appears to be "vague, evasive responses - fear shows itself. When you do this long enough, you see it right away." Areas crowded with people cause me anxiety by itself, especially if more than one person is trying to talk to me - such as companions, plus airline checkin personnel, and now the body-language gestapo....oops, didn't mean Godwin this, sorry.
I haven't been in an airport since 9/11 and I sure as hell ain't gonna go now.
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Good work! Parallels SCO's apparent attack on Pamela Jones, creator of Groklaw. I've been lurking on both sites for a very long time, and greatly appreciate getting the facts and the sources. Reading source docs are important in calibrating the BS filters.
...to contain itself? The only way to host the entire internet is to connect and download it, which makes Big Blue's BigBox a part of the internet...it would have to download itself.
And then it would be the hugest porn server in the universe. Ttl kewlniz.
If it supports anonymous free speech. Any uncontrolled arena in life will be viewed by government as a threat. That's why the Bill of Rights was written in the first place.
I don't really consider a cosmically sized face-plant to be a sign of intelligence.
Consider this...Mercury formed closest to the sun, meaning the lighter weight elements were more likely either blown away by solar wind, or absorbed by the sun's formation before Mercury was sizable. That means Mercury is probly higher in heavier elements.
That makes Mercury a richer target for eventual mining of rare metals as a part of building economically self-sustaining space colonies.
Mars has soil that won't grow Earth plants easily, enuf atmosphere and gravity to be a pita to spacecraft and too little of either to be useful for anything else, and no real economic development prospects yet known. Let's face it, the chance of life is real long shot. So why is Mars so interesting?
are almost always "black and white" and color is obtained by rotating different color filters in front for several shots. The different colored shots are combined to get color images.
"False color" is used (most often) when the images are taken in frequencies human eyes can't see, and so the data are adjusted bring out signif features.
The lack of smoothness, and use of few frames, is probly cuz this was a flyby, not final approach to orbit. Flybys occur at much higher speeds, and there's less time, so fewer frames.
Actually, the darkside of Mercury (yes, it has one. No, Earth's moon does not.) IS grayscale (like the inside of a black cat in a coal mine at midnight...). Infrared isn't more important, for science, what's most important is viewing with the widest range of frequencies possible.
I bought my Apple ][ in 1979. It HAD true lower case, and I read DrDobb's to find the snippet of machine code for the sweet-16 interpreter that would make the shift key work like a regular shift key. The lower case was in the box, but wasn't in the keyboard.
][+ changed all that, however, with the built-in Microsoft Basic (yes, it was slow and needed more RAM). God I wish I'd kept it - serial number was less than 33,000 (32668 or something else similar to 32768 - 2^15).
The disk driver was unlike anything else on the market - you could remap the sector addresses, speed it up and increase 5.25 disk storage from the stock 140K to as much as 180K - COOL.
I still have the red book, however.
I tasted the new coke - it was too sweet, and reminded me of DrPepper, which I didn't like. After the fiasco, Coke and new Coke were sold side by side for awhile.
I toured the USS Lexington (old, trainer aircraft carrier) some months later, and discovered what happened to most of the new Coke: on the flight deck were large areas (20 foot square, approx) chain linked and gated for holding commissary supplies. One of these areas was filled, floor to ceiling way up there, with pallets of New Coke for the ship's vending machines. All I could think was, these poor sailors have to put up with all the limitations of living at sea, and the Navy adds New Coke to their troubles.
(I still where onions on my belt)
To fix Vista, Microsoft simply needs to introduce a new bootloader at the operating system level similar to the one used by Ubuntu. With the bootloader, Vista and all future Microsoft operating systems would default to Linux. Anyone wanting the full Vista experience could simply go to the zoo and let the monkeys throw poo at them.
"needless complexities introduced" - Most Windows releases have been criticized for adding complexity - something I've never heard attributed to any part of Unix or Linux.
"application crash issues" I've had with Unix and/or Linux: zero. I mean zero. Individual apps may occassionally hiccup, but those bugs can be found (since I can get at teh source code). It's NEVER been enuf so that I was tempted to call it "an issue".
I think he means the registry plus Windows' auto-update feature. The problems with both is why that idea isn't a good one. How many times have you read the phrase "Windows registry corruption" or a headline about how Microsoft's latest update killed ten million users?
I feel confident I'm right when I state: ... starting with new code" is not something one does when "there's nothing wrong with" the product. /. summary is quoting the article, since I can't bring myself to clicky TFA.
A "complete Vista makeover
This statement is so far from reality that it's even out of range of the orbital nukes. I'll assume the
It's a wiki for people who want to take control of the job. It's mostly about extreme programming, but much of it can really be applied to any process system.
A contract is an agreement between parties where they exchange considerations (benefits). A contract by itself can NEVER enable you to do something that is otherwise illegal. It is common for contracts to include license grants (like software "EULA"s). Example: You can use my fishing cabin next Thursday if you pay me $100. We both must agree - you agree to give me bucks, I give you a one day license. If either doesn't agree, it don't happen.
A license allows you to do something that is otherwise illegal - such as fish, hunt, drive a car. License does NOT require agreement. Here's an example: You can use my fishing cabin next Thursday. See? You didn't have to agree - I just let you have a one-day license, whether you want it or not. If you don't agree, so what? The license is still sitting there.
Since copying, distributing, etc, source code is illegal without a grant of rights from the holder, and since the recipients of the software don't have to agree, the GPL is a license, not a contract.
If he has distributed the software in binary form, then does not offer the source to the downloaders, then he's in violation of the GPL. It doesn't matter that he's the author of the software - the license says if you distribute binaries, you MUST make the source available (I think for 3 years) at no (unreasonable) cost.
I meant that 'autism is not retardation' solely in regard to the person's actual mental abilities. I wasn't considering the actual diagnostic history of the two. Sorry for the miscue.
Actually, Asperger's syndrome was first described clinically in 1944. It didn't make it into the DSM IV until 1994.
There's no autism baseline with naturally set and known rates of what the diagnosis rate should be.
Agreed, but I didn't say there was. My point was that the rate of diagnosis is increasing, and it's not just cuz the world is becoming aware of it. Research it - it is a complex subject. Sorry I'm not linking, but you have to read a lotta research (or press releases about the research) AND the counter-arguments from other clinicians in order to get the full picture. In addition, you must take into account WHO is reporting/paying for the research. There's a lotta snake oil out there about autism cuz alotta snakes smell money.
It's neither as bad as some want us to believe, nor is it just a fad.
a lot of "mild retardation" is, indeed, included in ASD
Autism is not primarily causitive of retardation; but retardation can be secondary effect, like the bad behavior. The inescapable impact of moderate to severe autism is that the child simply can't develop their mind in other normal ways.
"it's a fad disease because " Calling it a 'fad' disease is similar to the Washington Monthly author calling those who disagree with him "emotionally invested". Sure, some people treat autism emotionally (including fad-fetishing it). That is in no way a characteristic of autism, but of another sickness in the US culture that perhaps should have its own diagnosis. (I think a good treatment of THAT illness is a few smacks upside dahed.)
I regard gp post as possible flamebait. No compentent doctor can mistake autism with retardation. It's like diagnosing a broken leg as appendicitis. autism can cause retardation in extreme cases, but moderate to minor cases (like Asperger's), autistic kids tend to have average intelligence or better.
There are many, many other easily-spotted differences as well - sensory defensiveness, attention deficits (mental retardation doesn't always have these, autism always does), etc.
#1: FDA "grandfathered" a lotta medicines and treatments as it took control over drug regulation. Most grandfathered drugs did not require safety testing, even to this day. I'm not saying that was good or bad - but was thimerosal one of the 'grandfathered' drugs? Aspirin is a good example of why "we've always done it that way" is NOT a good safety policy. (aspirin can trigger seizures in children). ..."
Autism is neither a fad disease nor is "mild retardation". Please study a topic before spouting on it.
Autism is diagnosed more because: several syndromes that were thought unrelated have been shown to be related; Better techniques for diagnosing "minor" versions of Autism (like Asperger's, ADHD) are available; Doctors are becoming better educated on the subject. But the rise in diagnoses far exceeds the combination of all these effects.
Please note the article is highly biased: "many autism advocates still aren't convinced. I'm not surprised. I suspect that the emotional investment in
The writer immediately dismisses those who disagree as being "emotionally invested" and doesn't mention whether those who study the problem are "financially invested".
Don't trust school district specialists for anything regarding special needs kids. Personal experience - the districts hire specialists who keep costs down. Although Fed funds help, states must foot most of the cost of teaching special needs kids, and federal law (IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act) does not permit "lack of resources" (money) as a reason for not meeting kids' needs. So the districts hire and promote "specialists" who have track records for low "positive" rates. The result is kids who have minor needs (like ADHD and High Functioning Autism) are treated as behavioral or "emotionally disturbed" and are shunted off to juvenile detention as soon as the district can engineer it. Before trusting a govt agent with an agenda, read the research yourself. YES, there is a rising number of kids with autism, and no one good explanation yet.
"This is because children labeled autistic" versus "children who are just deemed learning disabled" and So parents with mentally disabled children are increasingly encouraged to have their child [labelled?] autistic."
Autism IS a learning disability, and it's what the f**king law is there for.
It is NOT necessarily a "mental disability", in that it does not necessarily cause a child to have lower IQ scores, nor (with training) does it cause a child to have extremely unacceptable behaviors. However, a teacher that treats an HFA kid as purely a discipline problem can cause all kinds of punishable behaviors.
Please take some time to learn a little more about this - your understanding of the topic seems quite muddled.
I'd pay 12.99 just to NOT hear him ever again...Sony must really really WANT this to fail. Perhaps they're trying to generate some ammo for political talking points.
To see what position the eye is in, or exactly how the lips tighten, the face must hold the "micro" position long enough to be seen clearly. Visual clarity can not occur faster than the eye's biochemistry can operate. ..." I doubt I'd have body language "open" enough be considered "ordinary" when they scoop up 600 'ordinary' people along with 11 that get arrested.
...the sensitivity TSA is bringing to the program, [Maccario] recalled a meeting with an association for people with Tourette's disorder to assure them that having a tic will not result in a pat-down.
"Persistence of vision" is caused by the finite amount of time required to replenish the rodopsin in the rods/cones of the eye. It is not a cognitive process, and therefore, no amount of training can overcome it.
As TFA says, they've got to look for suspicious behaviors and "vague, evasive responses" along with microexpressions.
"Ordinary people...are much more open with their body movements and expressions
Oh yeah, that's sensitive - marginalizing autism to "having a tic" really makes me think they care. (Tourette's is a form of HFA)
That's why I distrust this - it assumes that if your behaviors aren't "ordinary" as they define "ordinary", then they have probable cause.
Note the quote. In TFA, the TSA spokesman said vagueness.
Hyperactivity is not unstimulated fidgetyness, but overstimulated fidgetyness. It is caused by neurological over-reaction to either stimulus from the environment, or from (unknown) internal neurological activity. There's no way this can avoid affecting "micro expressions". Trying to apply neurotypical behavioral rules to an autistic is bound to fail. This is a big part of why HFAs have such trouble fitting in in school. HFAs have normal or higher than normal intelligence, but poor social adaptability because of their inability to correctly express themselves nonverbally.
Don't believe the crap about "micro expressions" - if it isn't total TSA BS, then the micro-expressions are probably on the order of several tenths of a second, not 1 or 2 hundredths. I seriously doubt that mere training alone would enable a person to see something that occurs in 1 or 2 hundredths of a second. If so, movies and TV wouldn't work - they flash frames for 30-35 milliseconds (25 per second) (for movies, with a blank screen in between) to give a smooth appearance of movement. If human eyes could catch 10 millisecond movements, TV and movies would be too jerky to watch, and movies would flash. Every seen an old silent film that wasn't speeded up? They used to be 12-15 frames per second and flashed irritatingly cuz the eye could just barely catch the movement.
The claim of "99%" accuracy IS complete BS - TFA said they were getting 99% false positives. And again, I question whether they tested the accuracy against autistic people to see what the false positive rate is for them.
Ummm...I can't think of anything to add to the subject line, except some comparisons: if 99% of the people getting speeding tickets were innocent, would that be "excellent"? If you were charged incorrectly 99% of the time you bought groceries or fastfood, would that be "so good"?
Yes, these are relevant comparisons: in each case, you can correct the situation by greater interaction (court appearance, challenging the receipts, stripping to yer undies) with the mistaken organizations.
And in each case, the wrongness is unacceptable.
Do their techinques take into account people with high functioning autism, or other non-neurotypical conditions that affect body language?
I accidentally beat a polygraph test years ago because I was so uniformly anxious that when I DID lie, the interpreter didn't see it as any different than my other responses.
Parts of the autistic condition are severe ADHD and the inability to read or express thru facial or body expressions. The hyperactivity alone (fidgetyness) can be interpreted as sneakiness or a deceptivity-give-away. Other body language miscues produced will result what appears to be "vague, evasive responses - fear shows itself. When you do this long enough, you see it right away."
Areas crowded with people cause me anxiety by itself, especially if more than one person is trying to talk to me - such as companions, plus airline checkin personnel, and now the body-language gestapo....oops, didn't mean Godwin this, sorry.
I haven't been in an airport since 9/11 and I sure as hell ain't gonna go now.