As with most things I read on the net now, I consider it internet gossip until there is confirmation from someone who is an actual authority on the matter. For

As with most things I read on the net now, I consider it internet gossip until there is confirmation from someone who is an actual authority on the matter. For all we know (assuming the story is true), Steve has just unplugged to take some time to recover. I know first hand how quickly internet gossip can get out of hand. Last year I wrote a blatantly untrue story on a blog I ran during October - it was a message directed at MTV employees who I knew read the blog on an almost hourly basis (I worked this out from grepping the logs and cross referencing that with MTVNE ip ranges). Within less than a day, this blog post had gone from rumour http://www.bestactever.com/2008/10/28/rick-to-perform-at-emas-hell-yeah/ http://www.bestactever.com/2008/10/28/rick-to-perform-at-ema... To being reported on an MTV owned blog http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/10/28/while-you-were-changing-your-name-to-lady-caca/ http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/10/28/while-you-were-changin... To frontpage news on both Yahoo UK and cnet (I only have a screenshot of the Yahoo site) and it was the top story on Yahoo's site for more than 16 hours. http://files.marklancaster.org/images/yahoo-page.jpg http://files.marklancaster.org/images/yahoo-page.jpg Moral of the story - don't believe everything you read on the net.