Links for 2004-11-26

Posted November 26, 2004 12:15 AM.

• Blogcritics say Star Trek is finally back!
  And you know what - I agree with them. Once last season's ghosts were exorcised, it's actually started to be a watchable and interesting piece of TV again. My name is Tom Coates and I am a geek.
  (categories: critic enterprise fiction opinion review scifi space startrek startrekenterprise television tv)
• Electronic Arts as a modern-day sweatshop
  "On weekdays, his team worked from 9 to 10 (that is, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), and on Saturdays, a half-day (that means 9 to 6). Then Sundays were added - noon to 8 or 10 p.m. The weekly total was 82 to 84 hours."
  (categories: consolegames consoles electronicarts employment games hours overwork sweatshop technology videogames work workplace)
• Hewlett-Packard are developing a "privacy protection system" for cameras
  I wrote about something similar to this a while back. The basic concept is some kind of widget held by the potential subject of the photograph that communicates privacy preferences to the camera, changing the way that it functions.
  (categories: camera cameraphone camphone gadgets hewlettpackard infrared photography picture preferences privacy technology)
• My post on Camera Phones and privacy from June 2003
  "If I were a private nervous person who didn't want photos taken of me at all, then I could set my camera to a 'leave me alone' mode. If someone tried to take a picture of me on a 'normal' setting, then they'd find that their camera simply wouldn't work.
  (categories: cameraphones camphones interaction manners photo photographs photography preferences privacy rude socialsoftware ubicomp)