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This still might mean that, for example, One Click Shopping on Amazon is still patentable. It's that threat that's the worst, not the the obvious "X... but with a computer" that this addresses.

There needs to be a serious discussion about what is novel and what deserves to be protected (since patenting is an artificial granted monopoly to encourage invention in exchange for an open description, not a natural right).