Jumping in on this without knowing anything about the business model, but why not just ask all of the drivers to pay $35 (for example) one time to do a bg check / insurance check?

The higher fee to drivers is not about Uber's underlying fixed costs; a simple fee or holdback on the first commission check would suffice. The purpose of the higher fee is to make more money of off the driver's to make Uber's balance sheet look better.

Basically, it's an indication that Uber's finances are a lot weaker than their lofty valuation would suggest.

Probably because this isn't really about that.

Drivers aren't all going to pay a fee. Some will drive less or switch to a competitor.

Right? I guess there would need to be some mechanism for updating them however. You don't want someone to get 'certified' and then get a record, but it be invisible.

I guess an ongoing rate is necessary for ongoing updating.

I think you have a really good idea. I also agree that a lot of users would use an image sharing site if they know potentially they could make some money instead of none.

There are some really good points brought up in this thread, that I think you are going to have to battle against. Maybe not as severe as Popcorn just faced but these are issue.

I actually think it was 4.

GoDaddy requires 6 digits, but the agent let the attacker guess 2 of them (repeatedly, until he got it right). That's truly awful.

I thought everyone knew not to use GoDaddy after the SOPA incident. Hopefully this will convince more people to move their domains to a domain registrar that cares about its customers.

SOPA was from one person (in-house counsel) and was not and is not the sentiment of c-level management or any employees I've ever talked to.

totally off-topic, but because of the SOPA nonsense I've slowly moved my 40-or-so domains to namecheap during 2013 when their renewals came up. I was otherwise ambivalent about which DNS service/registrar to use before that incident...

but thank you for helping the guy get his twitter account back and fixing up the internal controls.

Sometimes you're forced to use godaddy.

I wanted a domain that had been registered with godaddy, so I needed to backorder it through them, and register it through them.

The attacked got the last 4 from Paypal and Godaddy asked him to guess two more digits.

Guess from a fairly limited set as well, it wasn't all numbers 00-99.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N...

Something isn't right. They ask for the 2 digits before the last 4, and then let him guess the first two.

I'm really interested to see godaddy's response to this...I'm sure paypal records their interactions, I would imagine godaddy does as well. Hell, I called Avis about something 2 months later with a dispute and they pulled the recording to make sure I wasn't BS'ing them.

story archived here in case it did/does go down:

http://pastebin.com/g7R6Ren2

It is a long shot, and would take ton of money in fees mainly for a very skilled private investigator but you are absolutely correct this is one route to go.

I value any company's committment to security however there are ways that Twitter can prove who the owner of the account was, if they really wanted to.

Let's see if this story hits real news headlines and affects Twitters stock before closing bell tomorrow and action will happen.

This seems like a nifty idea. I have definitely been plagued with coders block in the past.

that's what is bothering me. could never figure it out from a UX perspective, but that is definitely it.

I don't see North Korea?