Behavioral screening -- the future of airport security?

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/02/airp ... index.html

hmmm...unless you're afraid of flying, a look of annoyed boredom is probably your best bet.

And then there's this

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2007-09-25-behavior-detection_N.htm
Automated systems for certain behavioural-checks are being (and have been) developed already.

Gonna be fun next time at the airport. When I'm annoyed, my way of walking shows that. When I'm upset it shows.
And ofcourse, I'm always anxious when waiting in lines where there's no personal space.

This sounds really great for spectrum people, as well as anxiety and other disorders...

To me they are not subliminal at all; they are more obvious than other things especially whatever a commercial is trying to sell, and if I catch one on a video recording then I back it up by frames and show it to other people.

I think if I saw a subliminal Bin Laden then I might interpret it as a signal to terrorists that that plane is the one that they are supposed to blow up, and I wouldn't want to get on it!

This reminds me a little of the film "Minority Report" (directed by Spielberg).

But what is the reaction to an image of Osama Bin Laden supposed to indicate?

A relative or friend of someone who died on 9/11 might react angrily or with fear or be upset.

A journalist like me might react more calmly by thinking, ooh, I wonder what he's been saying now, wonder if our news channel were sent his tapes, or whether they were broadcast over the internet, wonder whether he has made any admissions or threats, or whether he's just ranting on about infidels more generally... wonder whether he is still in some cave in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, wonder if it's an old video and maybe he's actually dead because he was supposed to be undergoing kidney dialysis... don't think the US actually want to capture him, because they wouldn't want all the stuff about the business connections between his family and the Bush family being publicised even further.

I'd probably just go into some stream of consciousness of thoughts like that, I wouldn't necessarily react in the same way as someone who's been fired up by all the 'war on terror' propaganda bollocks.

bahh, sounds like another reason to stock up on the Valium and Xanax when flying. What do you think the computer makes of vacant eyed disinterest?

I think that'll backfire....and what if you are going to see someone you really like, and your heart is all beating fast because you can't wait to be there with them???