Kingston Flash Drive Causes iPhoto to launch

I have Kingston Traveler U3 memory stick, and every time I plug it in iPhoto launches and looks for a camera.
Anyway I can tell iPhoto or the OS that this is not a camera and to ignore it?

If you don't use any cameras with your computer, open the Image Capture application in the Applications folder, choose Preferences from the Image Capture menu, and change the setting under Camera.
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Capacity:    15.99 GB (15,988,686,848 bytes)
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