Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

Because we know that liability is an issue that keeps companies away from making vaccines, we need to resolve this, particularly when it comes to making vaccines for an influenza pandemic.

We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.