foreign internet sites. researchers are calling it the great cannon, and it doesn t just block banned foreign websites. it can actively attack them with massive denial of service attacks. with a few tweaks to the existing system, researchers fear it could be used to spy on and tax individual users in and outside china. here s how it works. ed user generates web traffic, the great cannon checks the ip list. if it is on thet,t matches the attack crier tear yosemite park the great cannon sends malicious code to the user s browser. fires repeat request at websites to paralyze them. the australian government is wading into the controversy over childhood immunizations. prime minister tony abbot wants to cut benefit to parents who don t vaccinate their kids. under this plan, families could miss out on thousands of dollars in tax breaks and
welcome back. crowds will be back at the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. yesterday our first african-american president stood at the bridge and declared we know the march isn t over yet. it s a moment in history and a moment in politics. the iconic photo of 50 years ago. dr. king, coretta scott king beginning to march. the vip list of politicians including the president of the united states, former president george w. bush. why wasn t the house republican leadership going to be represented? at the last minute, kevin mccarthy did go, the number two in republican leader ship. tim scott, they re at the event. this is about history. this is an iconic event, sentinel event. you think about politics, president obama in 2012, 93% of
something like look, i ve taken this thing called a vacation. i found out you can opt into that. if you have an emergency, call me on my cell. did you make phone calls. i was allowed to use the phone for voicen an testing one person at a time. like no blast texts. it was a loophole i designed. i m not crazy. robert gibbs is with us from washington. he has a question. cool. gibbs? no, just i think it s amazing that you could even attempt to try to do this. you know, did people did your relatives feel disconnected? how did you stay in touch with those people that, you know, you knew you talked with pre day? so two things. one, i made a vip list of folks and let folks know ahead of time, i ll be gone. here s my number. actually got closer to my closest friends in new york. and in terms of the people who didn t see me, i didn t see them either. i didn t hear their screams like
doing to get more bottoms in chairs in slow times. maybe it s your personality but i thought if i was running a store there would be things i d do. number one, if i was running a retail store, i d have a database for my customer. anybody that walks into the store, they re going into a database, you re asking for e-mail and lists. so you can create a vip list. my wife and i like sushi from this little store nearby. they send us coupons. it keeps us coming back. it s like the dentist. you fill out that thing, don t forget to come to the dentist. yeah. no matter what kind of retail store you are, if you want to have a newsletter based around it, a once a month e-mail going out, to advertise or educate which you brings me to the next point. every retail store should be doing something to educate because that brings in customers. the sushi restaurant, an an example, i ll use them and also
best customers, about 3,000, that give us feedback on a leg basis. ask your customers, what do you want us to build? what would you be excited to build? they are the most likely user base to like what you build. so tell them, this vip list of users, how would you use them? they were writing in to us on a regular basis. i love your products. i love what you are doing. you are changing my life. we said, we would love to talk to you on a regular basis and give you the inside scoop on what you are triihinking or developing. when they are excited, they give us clear guidance on what they would be excited to potentially buy. is this via e-mail or phone? and often focus groups, talking to customers in real life. that s the best way to go about it. ask those customers. they are also likely your loyal customers that are going to buy your new products. moving on to the next one. a question about best practices for running your businesses.